Debunking the Multi-NAI Myth

[ebmorgan]

Originally Posted by hunterdg

just wrote a huge breakdown of this process and the #$&*#& backspace button took me back a page instead of back a space.. i'll see if i feel like explaining this process tomorrow from work. anyone want to encourage me? (Former sprint tier II (ATS) Tech support rep) (ebmorgan is sorely misinformed)

Not "sorely misinformed"....just not aware of the clever way Sprint puts NAIs to use. What I gether from your post, not only does Sprint use NAIs for their native intention (authentication and auth server locating), but Sprint also recognize NAIs on the Sprint server side as indicators of which M.IP profile is in use....because each M.IP profile has a different NAI. It still not the NAIs that contain connection state....it's an additional process the Sprint runs on their end. So I'm right...but didn't have the knowledge about Sprints provisiong topology to follow it through to conclusion.

So, after reading your post...you're correct: MultiNAI disableing would keep Sprint from knowing you're tethering.....but only if you use the wModem app....which we don't because of the inception on ICS.

So the next questions are.....is there a MultiNAI reg key for ICS? My guess is probably not because ICS is an on-phone process of handing off the data from the tethered connection and not honding off the tethered connection itself.