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Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?
From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:03:43 -0700
On Thu 2015-Jul-16 21:19:54 +1000, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
In message <20150716060336.GA4261 () bamboo slabnet com>, Hugo Slabbert writes:--snip-- >You can blame the religious zealots that insisted that everything >DHCP does has to also be done via RA's. This means that everyone >has to implement everything twice. Something Google should have >realised when they releases Android. oi...do we want to go down that road[1][2] again?Once you have two methods of doing things, neither of which is manditory to implement, you can only get interoperate with everything if you implement both. The whole "we can't open a second socket" to do DHCP + SLACC because it is "too complicated" or "we don't want to run a second server" was nonsense. The direct consequence of doing that was Android not working on networks that supply other config over DHCP. We ship servers that speak multiple protocols on one multiple ports in the one binary. It isn't and never has been hard to do that.
Not disagreeing with you. The discussion was just exhaustively expounded in that thread over (by my count) 182 messages, with very little to show for it. We can take another run at flinging words on the topic and trying to get Google to implement a DHCPv6 client in Android, but I have my doubts about how effective that will be.
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- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?, (continued)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Tore Anderson (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Chuck Anderson (Jul 17)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Hugo Slabbert (Jul 17)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Lee Howard (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mark Andrews (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Matthew Kaufman (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Stephen Satchell (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Hugo Slabbert (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mark Andrews (Jul 16)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Hugo Slabbert (Jul 16)
- RE: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Keith Medcalf (Jul 16)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Dave Pooser (Jul 16)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Ricky Beam (Jul 16)
- RE: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Tony Hain (Jul 17)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? Mel Beckman (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? John Kinsella (Jul 15)
- Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"? mikea (Jul 15)