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> This means we can not ever keep a connection alive when moving from one network and hence IP address into another. One of the things I was looking forward to
by gopalv 7y ago
> This means we can not ever keep a connection alive when moving from one network and hence IP address into another.
One of the things I was looking forward to from IPv6 was the mobility of IPs [1].
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP#Changes_in_IPv6_for_Mobile_IPv6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP#Changes_in_IPv6_for_...
- ATsch 7y agoI think the idea of mobile IP is fundamentally flawed and I'm not surprised it didn't catch on. The whole point of IP addresses is to be a hierarchical address describing a location in the network. Once you can move IPs, they become completely meaningless. Mobile IP proposals just hack around this by running everything through a glorified VPN.