On Oct 10, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> writes:
>>    >> Agreed. But I think it is worth noting that nd-proxy is practical
>>    >> in mobile networks where each subscriber gets a unique /64.
>>    >>
>>    >> Mobile network attachment has popped up a few times in homenet
>>    >> discussions.
>> 
>>    Mikael> I think ND proxy has some use even in other cases, I would
>>    Mikael> just like to be sure that there is consensus that this won't
>>    Mikael> scale to a home with lots and lots of devices. The number 10
>>    Mikael> or 16 simulatenous active IPv6 addresses comes to mind,
>>    Mikael> after that I don't want to know what they have in their home
>>    Mikael> anymore, they'll have to route it themselves.
>> 
>> So, I think that most of us were thinking that proxy-ND is what the home
>> does when the home runs out of it's /60.  I don't see why the ISP would
>> ever see this.
>> 
>> Or are you saying a mobile device (a smartphone) will only ever get a
>> /64 to share?
>> 
> 
> Today, yes.  GSM/UMTS/LTE devices today only support local /64 from
> the mobile network, AFAIK... and I have seen implementations of ND
> Proxy.  I have not seen anything aside from providing one network
> provided IPv4 address per mobile device (then the mobile will do its
> own NAT44 of that address)... but i may just be missing something
> there.  My infrastructure is only setup to provide 1 IPv4 address
> and/or 1 /64 of IPv6.
> 
> Some future spec's from 3GPP will allow for DHCPv6-PD, but that is
> forthcoming standards work and implementations.

Cameron not only beat me with an answer, he provided a more informed one. 
Thanks!

- Mark

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