[180735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorenzo Colitti)
Wed Jun 10 06:49:48 2015
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In-Reply-To: <1433920393.11511.52.camel@karl>
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@colitti.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:49:24 +0900
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
> 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...
Ok, let's see how that goes, even among the few people on this thread.
Question for everyone on this thread that has said that DHCPv6 NA is a
requirement: suppose that Android supported stateful DHCPv6 addressing,
requested a number of addresses, and did not use any of them if the number
of addresses received was less than N.
What does N need to be?
