Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 drains battery of mobile devices?

> On Oct 9, 2017, at 1:26 AM, Frans Panken wrote: > > Thanks Bruce for the nice overview and +1 for the last remark. > > A search for battery drain and IPv6 gives you tons of hits. I tested the RA > myth one year ago by two SSIDs with different RAs (1 SSID with 500

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 drains battery of mobile devices?

Thanks Bruce for the nice overview and +1 for the last remark. A search for battery drain and IPv6 gives you tons of hits. I tested the RA myth one year ago by two SSIDs with different RAs (1 SSID with 500 RA/h and the other 30/h). Outcome: hardly any effect. (inspite of the RFC on this topic

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 drains battery of mobile devices?

This is an issue with the configuration on that particular WiFi network and not an architectural issue with IPv6. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-your-smartphone-battery-being-drained-google-cisco-blame-ipv6-network-misconfiguration-1544393 IPv4 with NAT does have some architectural issues.

RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 drains battery of mobile devices?

For those of you running Cisco controllers, there is a feature called “RA Throttling” that can help with this. Hector Rios Louisiana State University From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike King Sent: Friday,

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] IPv6 drains battery of mobile devices?

For years, Windows and Apple devices automatically prefer IPv6. Moreover, we have found issues with BonJour and other functionality, when we disable IPv6. Instead we suppress ipv6 nd ra. This will, at the minimum, limit the auto-networking functionality of ipv6. --Christina Klam Network