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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo () colitti com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:32:30 +0900
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au> wrote:
RFC 3315 says you just chuck in multiple IA_NA (or IA_TA) options. The server will respond with multiple addresses. And if a device makes a second (, third, fourth, ..) request with a different DUID, it'll get a second (,third, fourth,...) address oo, I guess.
It's certainly possible to make Android request N IPv6 addresses via DHCPv6, and not accept the offer if it is offered fewer than N addresses. But that only really makes sense if there's a generally-agreed upon minimum value of N. I'd be happy to work with people on an Internet draft or other standard to define a minimum value for N, but I fear that it may not possible to gain consensus on that. It's also possible for Android to support DHCPv6 PD. Again I'd be happy to work with people on a document that says that mobile devices should do DHCPv6 PD and not DHCP NA, and then implement DHCPv6 PD. But I fear similar arguments will be had there. Asking for more addresses when the user tries to enable features such as tethering, waiting for the network to reply, and disabling the features if the network does not provide the necessary addresses does not seem like it would provide a good user experience.
Current thread:
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 George Michaelson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jared Mauch (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tore Anderson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tore Anderson (Jun 10)