[180704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Maslak)
Tue Jun 9 23:43:01 2015
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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:37:38 -0600
From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@antelope.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Most APs don't support bridging, not enough addresses in the protocol
(without enabling WDS or whatever modern versions of that are).
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> said:
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:59:47 +1000, Karl Auer said:
> > > Hope the question doesn't make me look like an idiot, but why does
> using
> > > stateful DHCPv6 mean having to go back to NAT?
> >
> > How does the device ask for a *second* DHCPv6'ed address for tethering or
> > whatever?
>
> It's called "bridging". Let whatever is being tethered ask directly for
> its own address.
> --
> Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
>
