[180664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk)
Tue Jun 9 14:54:37 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:53:28 +0000
From: A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnNn+FGYF_a8FBF3Ks5xUxWxoEz+JSr+ACSZLMoR2AM6_w@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi,
> supporting DHCPv6 seems to be that mobile networks don't need it, but that
> totally ignores 802.11 which is equally important.
...and what about 802.3 for those Android boxes/systems on the wired? :-)
> I would hope we're past the religious arguments of SLAAC vs DHCPv6 but it
> seems like every time the topic comes up the entire conversation turns into
> a holy war on what method is the best. They're both valid, and both useful.
agreed....too many times I find out that DHCPv6 is chosen as a stateful method
because they want to record/track MAC addresses like they do for DHCP.... a little
bit of explaining the protocol differences and they soon take up the SLAAC ;-)
alan
