[180638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jun 8 23:19:13 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:19:08 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150609031454.GD3716@bender.unx.cpp.edu>
Cc: 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.
LC still has true religion. dump android.
