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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 23:37:11 -0400
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> said:On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:59:47 +1000, Karl Auer said:Hope the question doesn't make me look like an idiot, but why does using stateful DHCPv6 mean having to go back to NAT?How does the device ask for a *second* DHCPv6'ed address for tethering or whatever?It's called "bridging". Let whatever is being tethered ask directly for its own address.
it remains to be seen if that would actually work, and it's probably network-dependent, right? If your notional network implemented SAVI restrictions then a single dhcpv6 assigned address might be all you get. A bunch of this discussion (on both sides) seems (to me) get get back to: "I designed something, took a left turn and kept on driving.... and I just don't want to revisit assumptions." Example: "I do not want to support SLAAC because I don't want to do RDNSS, I will provide dns servers/etc via dhcpv6" Example: "We will not support DHCPv6 because people might assign one address only." Both of those have a way to a solution, neither has to be a hard/fast rule, right?
Current thread:
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6, (continued)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Chris Adams (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jon Bane (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jon Bane (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jon Bane (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Ricky Beam (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Christopher Morrow (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Joel Maslak (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Joel Maslak (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Michael Thomas (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Ca By (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mark Andrews (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 10)