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Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
- Subject: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
- From: josh at spitwspots.com (Josh Reynolds)
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:46:49 -0800
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]> <CAKGbBm=dCDpeFJe4f0_KM6pjdvpeHrL4t7fyczOj2D3y=_07pg@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
Memory is cheap, ASICs and FPGAs are getting better all the time.
It might be a problem a few years from now for older hardware, but I
can't see it causing real issues long term.
Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.com
On 06/10/2015 12:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lorenzo Colitti:
>
>> I think what I said is that supporting DHCPv6-only networks will eventually
>> force OS manufacturers to implement IPv6 NAT. This is because there are
>> many features inside a mobile OS that require multiple IP addresses.
> On many networks, there will be fairly tight limits on the number of
> usable addresses per ?port? even with SLAAC, similar to the evolution
> of Ethernet switching, which led to configurable limits of MAC
> addresses per port. So you'll likely need IPv6 NAT in the future
> anyway.