We had a similar issue with a client that had a sizeable deployment of MS 
surface tablets on EE. I’m not sure if this is the same issue you’re having.

When the SIMs were transitioned to IPv6, a dual stack service was not provided 
- it appeared to use NAT64/DNS64, consequently the devices were unable to build 
an IPSEC tunnel to a V4 concentrator and the clients employees were unable to 
access corporate resources remotely.

They ended up moving network because EE support could offer no solution or 
temporary rollback (given the change was made without notice).

While I appreciate what EE have deployed is technically valid, NAT64 is not 
very widely used and therefore likely to encounter issues like this one.

For those of you who have deployed DirectAccess before, you will be familiar 
with similar problems where certain systems and apps just don’t work because 
they are reliant on incompatible layers of translation.

Seems that there was a UKNOF presentation on this previously. While I agree 
that the premise of running dual-stack is a pain from a network operator 
perspective, it is also more of a pain when core business functionality is 
broken and doesn’t do us technology folk any favours.


Dan Kitchen
Managing Director
razorblue | IT Solutions for Business

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On 19 Nov 2018, at 01:02, Catalin Dominte 
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Hi Everyone,

I am having a bit of a problem with EE at the moment, since they deployed IPv6 
in their network (which I think it’s good) I cannot reach certain destinations 
that are running on IPv4, because they go via IPv6 by default.

EE are blaming a certain iPhone software feature, because they default to IPv6 
since IOS 12 without offering a way to disable it and they say there is nothing 
they can do to fix this. Apple has a bit of a blame too, for not allowing users 
to change APNs which EE said I should do if I want v4 only. Also, when 
tethering from an apple laptop, seems the specific route is disregarded which 
is totally against normal routing paradigm and IPv6 default is enforced.

However I explained to EE that I don’t want IPv4 only, but I certainly want an 
option to say what needs to go where, for certain corner case v4 compatibility 
scenarios, if they are to do this properly.

Has anyone had the same experience? Would be curious to see how much IPv6 
traffic EE does after the change, compared to IPv4. 😊.

Catalin

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