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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo () colitti com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:44:52 +0900
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Tore Anderson <tore () fud no> wrote:
In particular comment 105 is illuminating. Android is apparently fully on-board with mobile carriers' desire to break tethering, even going so far as to implement a feature whose *sole purpose* is to break thethering. Yet, at the same time, you refuse to implement DHCPv6 on WiFi because it *might*, as a *side effect*, break tethering. This does not strike me as very consistent.
Tethering is just one example that we know about today. Another example is 464xlat. And that's not counting future applications that can take advantage of multiple IP addresses that we haven't thought of yet, and that we will have if we get stuck with there-are-more-IPv6-addresses-in-this-subnet-than-grains-of-sand-but-you-only-get-one-because-that's-how-we-did-it-in-IPv4 networks.
Current thread:
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tore Anderson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Dave Taht (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tore Anderson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Chris Adams (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jared Mauch (Jun 10)
- RE: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Paul B. Henson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 A . L . M . Buxey (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Sander Steffann (Jun 10)