RE: [DNA] IPv6 over PPP over GPRS -- once again

["Tero Kauppinen (JO/LMF)" <tero.kauppinen@ericsson.com>]

Hi all,

It feels like this might start to disturb people and it is better that I try to find an answer to this before further posting on the mailing list.

Q'apla,
Tero

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jari Arkko [mailto:jari.arkko@kolumbus.fi]
> Sent: 18. marraskuuta 2004 6:53
> To: Soliman, Hesham
> Cc: Bernard Aboba; Tero Kauppinen (JO/LMF); Dna
> Subject: Re: [DNA] IPv6 over PPP over GPRS -- once again
> 
> Soliman, Hesham wrote:
> 
> > => I don't think the GGSN knows if it's for the phone
> > or laptop. But yes the RA should be sent to the phone.
> 
> The GGSN does not need to know, really. It always sends
> an RA, and if the PDP context happens to be for the phone,
> the phone is the ultimate user of that RA. If its the laptop
> for which the PDP context has been requested, then the RA
> ends up in the laptop.
> 
> > And the phone should sent it to the laptop, but it's
> > an implementatio issue. I don't recall anything in the
> > spec that says the MT has to do that. Obviously it should
> > do it though.
> 
> Yes. I did not find anything specific about this either,
> but my understanding is that if a laptop establishes a
> connection through the phone, the laptop gets its own
> PDP context and gets everything sent to it -- including
> the RAs.
> 
> --Jari