Hotels/Airports with IPv6

Oliver O'Boyle oliver.oboyle at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 15:37:06 UTC 2015


Yep, because most don't even know what NAT is!

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Dennis Burgess <dmburgess at linktechs.net>
wrote:

> Most hotels etc, are perfectly happy doing NAT.
>
> Dennis Burgess, CTO, Link Technologies, Inc.
> dennis at linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 – www.linktechs.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 10:20 AM
> To: Mel Beckman
> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group
> Subject: Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6
>
> 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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