Hotels/Airports with IPv6

Thu Jul 9 15:19:58 UTC 2015

We manage 65+ hotels in Canada and the topic of IPv6 for guest internet
connectivity has never been brought up, except by me. It's not a discussion
our vendors or the hotel brands have opened either.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:

> I working on a large airport WiFi deployment right now. IPv6 is "allowed
> for in the future" but not configured in the short term. With less than
> 10,000 ephemeral users, we don't expect users to demand IPv6 until most
> mobile devices and apps come ready to use IPv6 by default.
>
>  -mel beckman
>
> > On Jul 9, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
> >
> > It’s my understanding that many captive portals have trouble with IPv6
> traffic and this is a blocker for places.
> >
> > I’m wondering what people who deploy captive portals are doing with
> these things?
> >
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dhc-capport
> >
> > seems to be trying to document the method to signal to clients how to
> authenticate.  I was having horrible luck with Boingo yesterday at RDU
> airport with their captive portal and deauthenticating me so just went to
> cellular data, so wondering if IPv4 doesn’t work well what works for IPv6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Jared
>

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