Hi, > I've done fairly extensive testing, and IPv6 support, while pretty solid on > the carrier side, is still iffy on WiFi. Both iOS and Android have various > reliability problems with IPv6 and WiFi, mostly related to acquiring a DNS > address or maintaining a connection while roaming. Combine that with > less-than-fully-baked IPv6 on some enterprise WiFi platforms, and it's easy > to see that deploying WiFi IPv6 today is at least a challenge, and definitely > a risk. > > Android, for example, doesn't yet support DHCPv6 on WiFi (it's not needed on > the carrier side, which does DNS intercept), and intermittently looses its > unicast address on some hardware devices (notably tablets, in my experience). > Even when android gets DHCPv6, or these hardware problems get solved, there > will be several years of legacy devices in the field to contend with.
we had problems with IPv4 in the early days - people still adopted it. without adoption, the bugs/issues with clients dont get addressed. alan
