[180637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul B. Henson)
Mon Jun 8 23:15:01 2015
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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:14:54 -0700
From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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.
Thanks...
