[180662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 9 12:41:54 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <557712D9.4080605@matthew.at>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 09:40:10 -0700
To: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 9, 2015, at 09:22 , Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at> wrote:
>=20
> On 6/8/2015 11:35 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>>> 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:
>> curious about the reasoning, for what is probably singular devices on =
a LAN ?
>=20
> Lack of RDNSS support in Windows? That's the complication on my =
IPv6-only network.
>=20
> Matthew Kaufman
As a general rule, Windows is a significant complication on any network =
forced to deal with its users.
This is not limited to IPv6.
Owen
