[180726] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Wed Jun 10 03:13:18 2015
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From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:13:13 +1000
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On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 15:32 +0900, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> It's certainly possible to make Android request N IPv6 addresses via
> DHCPv6, and not accept the offer if it is offered fewer than N addresses.
> But that only really makes sense if there's a generally-agreed upon minimum
> value of N. I'd be happy to work with people on an Internet draft or other
> standard to define a minimum value for N, but I fear that it may not
> possible to gain consensus on that.
You need as many as you need. Request them. Worry about it if you don't
get them. This is exactly what happens when N=1, BTW. A DHCPv6 server is
almost certainly not going to have an upper limit that significantly
crimps your style...
Regards, K.
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