21 Sep
2012
21 Sep
'12
12:14 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Randy Carpenter wrote:
In a happier note, if you tether a device via hotspot on an IOS6 iPad, the clients get native IPv6. Strangely, they get addresses out of the same /64 as the iPad's LTE interface. Anyone know how that is working? I would have thought they would use prefix-delegation, and there would be a separate routed /64.
Prefix delegation isn't generally available in mobile networks yet, that'll come in the next few years. It's probably using ND proxy or similar technique. <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6459> is a good starting point for further study, more specifically <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6459#section-5.3> to answer your above question. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se