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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jun 9 23:46:10 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:14:54 -0500."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 23:40:50 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:14:54 -0500, Chris Adams said:
> 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.

And the router knows to send to the "front" address to reach the "back" address,
how, exactly? Seems like somebody should invent a way to assign a prefix to
the front address that it can delegate to things behind it.  :)

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