[180802] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Wed Jun 10 16:46:58 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:46:49 -0800
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@spitwspots.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87mw07pa6b.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
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Memory is cheap, ASICs and FPGAs are getting better all the time.
It might be a problem a few years from now for older hardware, but I
can't see it causing real issues long term.
Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.com
On 06/10/2015 12:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lorenzo Colitti:
>
>> I think what I said is that supporting DHCPv6-only networks will eventually
>> 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 “port” 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.
