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> However the mobile devices can hop from network to network, and this isn't something IPv6 addresses any better than IPv4 (they'd still get a new address). IP
by sedachv 8y ago
> However the mobile devices can hop from network to network, and this isn't something IPv6 addresses any better than IPv4 (they'd still get a new address).
IPv6 is designed to address this use case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IPv6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IPv6
- fulafel 8y agoIn all fairness, it doesn't look like MIP is getting widely deployed any time soon. There is a currently active IETF group working on improvements, who knows, maybe it will get traction at some point: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmm/about/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmm/about/