[AusNOG] Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 22/01/2010, at 11:08 AM, Tim Warnock wrote:

>> None of the, for instance, Huawei 3G dongles will support IPv6.  In
>> fact their architecture makes it impossible.
> 
> This is interesting.
> 
> Do you have more info?
> 
> I was understanding that a 3G dongle presented like a serial port and PPP
> itself controlled what protocols worked or not.

The 3G dongles present a PPP service to the user, terminate it internally inside the dongle and then start a new session out the other side.   If you think about how 3G works it makes sense.  However, as I understand it not one of them has any v6 routing clue inside.

Oops.

MMC