Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Wed Jun 10 05:10:22 UTC 2015


On 06/09/2015 08:37 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:09 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> How does the device ask for a *second* DHCPv6'ed address for tethering or
>> whatever?
> 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.
>
>

Wouldn't the right thing to do is have the provider support dhcp prefix 
delegation, and the tether can run
dhcp for its clients? (or even slaac?)

Mike



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