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Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
- Subject: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
- From: randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:19:08 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
> We're in the beginning steps of bringing up IPv6 at the fairly large
> university where I work. We plan to use DHCPv6 rather than SLAAC for a
> variety of reasons. One of our guys recently noticed that Android has no
> support for DHCPv6, and a rather odd issue thread discussing it:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32621
>
> It looks like one developer simply refuses to implement it because if he
> did there might be a scenario where somebody might not be able to tether
> 8-/? His attitude is that you have to use SLAAC and RDNSS, which we're
> just not going to do. At this point I guess Android devices just won't
> work with IPv6 on our network, and we'll suggest they complain to their
> vendor and/or get a different phone.
>
> I was just curious what this forum might think of that design decision
> and the discussion on the issue thread.
LC still has true religion. dump android.