On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 19:12 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:02:00 +0000 > > > You can run an internal network, or access network, as v6-only with > > NAT64 and DNS64 at the border. I believe some mobile networks are doing > > this; it was also done on the main FOSDEM wireless network this year. > > This seems to be bloating up the networking headers of the internal > network, for what purpose? > > For mobile that's doubly inadvisable.
I don't know what the reasoning is for the mobile network operators.
They're forced to do NAT for v4 somewhere, and maybe v6-only makes the
access network easier to manage.
I doubt the extra header length hurts that much on a 3G or 4G network.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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