> On 3 Jun 2016, at 2:03 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> I was considering the background of the article: cellular networks with 
> smartphones. I don’t think even the test mentioned in the article considers 
> 3G/4G modems.


the vast majority of 3G internet access in Africa is cellular network direct to 
smartphone. 3G/4G modems are growing but still a drop compared to direct 
smartphone access


> 
> So in this case, you don’t run NAT444, just NAT44.


that’s assuming that the end-devices are IPv6 capable right?


> 
> You don’t need to “manually” check the phone of each uses. It works creating 
> a dual-stack APN and an IPv6-only APN, you can detect the cellular phones/OS 
> version and configure to them one or the other. So users with IPv6-enabled 
> phones (using 464XLAT such as Windows and Android, or with IPv6-enabled apps 
> such as iOS), will use IPv6-only connectivity (but they get dual-stack 
> service in the phone).
> 
> Smarpthones not capable of IPv6-only, or not IPv6-enabled at all, will use 
> the dual-stack APN.


You still need to have a reasonable device profile to at least know if the 
clients won’t get side-tracked by dual-stack APNs (there’s quite a lot of old 
'smartphones' out here with pre-happy-eyeballs code.


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