netdev - Re: [RFC v2 2/4] net: enables interface option to skip IP

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Message-Id: <20140224.191238.921310808350170272.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:12:38 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	dcbw@...hat.com, mcgrof@...not-panic.com, zoltan.kiss@...rix.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
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	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/4] net: enables interface option to skip IP

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:02:00 +0000

> You can run an internal network, or access network, as v6-only with
> NAT64 and DNS64 at the border.  I believe some mobile networks are doing
> this; it was also done on the main FOSDEM wireless network this year.

This seems to be bloating up the networking headers of the internal
network, for what purpose?

For mobile that's doubly inadvisable.

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