Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

[Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>]

Of course. The question is, is a highly visible public wifi network the place to hammer out problems? My customer 
decided no.

 -mel beckman

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:54 AM, "A.L.M.Buxey () lboro ac uk" <A.L.M.Buxey () lboro ac uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> > I've done fairly extensive testing, and IPv6 support, while pretty solid on the carrier side, is still iffy on WiFi. 
> > Both iOS and Android have various reliability problems with IPv6 and WiFi, mostly related to acquiring a DNS address 
> > or maintaining a connection while roaming. Combine that with less-than-fully-baked IPv6 on some enterprise WiFi 
> > platforms, and it's easy to see that deploying WiFi IPv6 today is at least a challenge, and definitely a risk. 
> >
> > Android, for example, doesn't yet support DHCPv6 on WiFi (it's not needed on the carrier side, which does DNS 
> > intercept), and intermittently looses its unicast address on some hardware devices (notably tablets, in my 
> > experience). Even when android gets DHCPv6, or these hardware problems get solved, there will be several years of 
> > legacy devices in the field to contend with.  
>
> we had problems with IPv4 in the early days - people still adopted it. without adoption, the bugs/issues with clients 
> dont
> get addressed. 
>
> alan