Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
by amaccuish on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:25PM
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But Mobile IP could do it https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6275
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Re:IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
by duskwuff on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:02PM
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It's not at all clear to me that Mobile IP would be viable at the scale of a modern wireless service provider. It amounts to routing all traffic to/from the mobile device through a machine on the network of its "home" IP address. Without some fairly invasive routing shenanigans, this would be disastrously bad for users traveling far from their home network (e.g. a user gone on vacation).
Not that it matters, really. As far as I'm aware, there were never any substantial deployments of this protocol.