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Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
- Subject: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
- From: A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk (A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk)
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:39:16 +0000
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Hi,
> Ok, let's see how that goes, even among the few people on this thread.
>
> Question for everyone on this thread that has said that DHCPv6 NA is a
> requirement: suppose that Android supported stateful DHCPv6 addressing,
> requested a number of addresses, and did not use any of them if the number
> of addresses received was less than N.
>
> What does N need to be?
well, from memory and a quick discussion with a colleague, our cisco wireless
kit is only happy with devices having 8 IPv6 addresses at most - otherwise
the older addresses get removed from the neighbour cache.
is that a good starting point? :-)
alan