Re: IPv6 and Android auto conf

[Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>]

On Mon 2015-Sep-28 17:33:46 +0530, Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
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> I recently got IPv6 working at home LAN. My Android device (Google Nexus 5)
> is connected via wifi to LAN and LAN's core router is Map2N
> <http://routerboard.com/RBmAP2n>. I have a /64 on the LAN with "advertise"
> enabled to make ND to work and have autoconfig working on all devices.
> There are bunch of other layer 2 devices in LAN but all just acting as
> layer 2 transparently and core L3 remains on Map2N.
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> All works well for most part but only trouble I am getting is on Nexus 5
> where after around 24hrs IPv6 stops working. 

How, specifically, does it "stop working" on the Nexus 5?
- temp addresses expired and does not generate new, valid, slaac addresses?
- RA entry ages out and doesn't get refreshed?
- cannot reach v6 gateway (ND fails somehow)?

> Only unusual thing I notice at that time is that phone 4 IPv6 as opposed 
> to 2 (autoconf and temporary randomised address). Seems like some kind of 
> issue in way NDP works either on Microtik or phone. The fix I am doing 
> from few days is to restart wifi and phone interface gets fresh (two) IPv6 
> addresses and all works well
> again.
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> Anyone facing similar issue? (Note: No issues on OS X or iOS which are in
> same LAN)
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> I can try DHCPv6 but I guess most of devices do not support it yet. (I see
> support for that in routerboard though).

Unless something's changed, DHCPv6 IA_NA isn't an option for getting an 
IPv6 address assigned to an Android device[1][2]

> Thanks.
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> Anurag Bhatia
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[1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32621
[2] http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2015-June/075915.html

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