Re:IPv4 Depletion
by Animats on Thursday June 25, 2015 @05:39PM
(#9781083)
Mobile should have been IPv6 from the beginning. In China, it mostly is. If we could get all the handsets on IPv6, that would free up much address space. T-Mobile has been pushing IPv6, but they had problems with Skype and WhatsApp, which apparently don't talk IPv6 properly.
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Re:IPv4 Depletion
by virtuallynathan on Thursday June 25, 2015 @06:16PM
(#9781258)
Verizon Wireless and T-Mo have very large amounts of IPv6 deployed. They use 464XLAT, and anything with hard-coded IPv4 literals (bad practice) works kinda poorly.
Interesting, especially in the light of google reported ~2 percent IPv6 penetration in China.
My personal experience in managing somewhat popular sites (dual stack) in line with Google reported numbers. https://www.google.ca/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-c...
AFAIK Google web-based services aren't that popular in China, so IPv6 metrics there are kinda irrelevant.
Randomly distributed sampling should give the same percentage.
I tested Skype back in January on IPv6only+NAT64, worked for me.
Anyway given this: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/06/apple-..., the days of "Apps not working with IPv6" are counted.
Re:IPv4 Depletion
by netheril96 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:36PM
(#9782032)
What? As a Chinese I have never been able to access IPv6 through mobile network or WiFi. Are you sure about your statement?
Re:IPv4 Depletion
by contingencies on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:24PM
(#9782314)
Me either, and I've used all providers historically. I think Animats was confused with Japan.