[180755] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jun 10 09:04:13 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20150610124836.GA9759@cmadams.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:04:09 -0400
To: Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
>=20
> Except for the ones that don't. Tethering is far from "just works,
> period." VPNs, VOIP, and games are things that don't always just work
> (behind any kind of NAT).
<sarcasm>
Please don=E2=80=99t bring facts into a discussion about ideologies of =
IPv6.
</sarcasm>
I think this is the problem that many of us face when dealing with the
day-to-date operational challenges of pitching IPv6 at others, many =
things
break for all sorts of reasons. Those of us fighting to enable this
technology everywhere face a number of challenges from vendors
(8 IPv6 address limits, passive-aggressive bug-fixing, etc)
My favorite vendor bug fix for IPv6 up to this point was this one:
This is a point fix for a forwarding issue in ipv6 over bundle area. It =
does not enable/claim support of ipv6 over bundle
So you fix a bug but don=E2=80=99t claim support for the bug you just =
fixed. Hmm.
Either way, we need to continue to push on these sensitive areas to make =
things happen.
I=E2=80=99m waiting for folks like Apple to turn on IPv6 on their CDN, =
or even deliver software updates over IPv6 to mobile devices. I suspect =
that would be a watershed moment as most people see huge traffic jumps =
on iOS release day. (Next one is June 30th apparently).
Should be exciting.
- Jared
