[180801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed Jun 10 16:42:46 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@colitti.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:42:36 +0200
In-Reply-To: <CAKGbBm=dCDpeFJe4f0_KM6pjdvpeHrL4t7fyczOj2D3y=_07pg@mail.gmail.com>
(Lorenzo Colitti's message of "Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:48:38 +0900")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Lorenzo Colitti:
> I think what I said is that supporting DHCPv6-only networks will eventual=
ly
> force OS manufacturers to implement IPv6 NAT. This is because there are
> many features inside a mobile OS that require multiple IP addresses.
On many networks, there will be fairly tight limits on the number of
usable addresses per =E2=80=9Cport=E2=80=9D even with SLAAC, similar to the=
evolution
of Ethernet switching, which led to configurable limits of MAC
addresses per port. So you'll likely need IPv6 NAT in the future
anyway.
