[180740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk)
Wed Jun 10 07:40:16 2015
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:39:16 +0000
From: A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@colitti.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKGbBm=shk1w7RvoNmLeD0rMYvqm_6AVFb3O7cX=A7QRTsWKKw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG List <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi,
> 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?
well, from memory and a quick discussion with a colleague, our cisco wireless
kit is only happy with devices having 8 IPv6 addresses at most - otherwise
the older addresses get removed from the neighbour cache.
is that a good starting point? :-)
alan
