Microsoft: Give Xbox One users IPv6 connectivity

Tassos Chatzithomaoglou achatz at forthnetgroup.gr
Wed Oct 9 23:55:38 CEST 2013


So Xbox One is actually the first (at least well-known) device/network/service/etc that uses IPv6 the way it was supposed to be, with IPSec?

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Tassos

Tore Anderson wrote on 9/10/2013 23:54:
> http://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/wed.general.palmer.xbox_.47.pdf
>
> Quoting from slide 2:
>
> «Network operators that want to provide the best possible user
> experience for Xbox One Users:
> * Provide IPv6 Connectivity»
>
> Gamers tend to be a demanding bunch. I can tell from a ton of forum
> posts and such that a common problem of theirs is that the Xbox (360)
> reports the «NAT Type» as being «Moderate» or even «Strict». If word
> gets around in those communities that a reliable remedy for such
> problems is to switch to an ISP that supports IPv6...
>
> Kudos to Chris and Microsoft!
>
> Anyone have any information on the PS4?
>
> Tore
>



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