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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Jun 10 01:41:21 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 07:38:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150609213223.GF999@cmadams.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Chris Adams wrote:

> Android devices (Samsung and LG) upgraded to Lollipop, I no longer have
> functioning IPv6 on wifi.  They connect and get an address (with privacy
> extensions even), but do not install an IPv6 default route.  They can
> talk to local IPv6 devices, but not the Internet.

My Nexus4 with Android 5.1.1 works just fine with IPv6 on wifi.

So talk to your handset manufacturer, they must have broke something.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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