Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Wed Jun 10 05:25:07 UTC 2015

On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Michael Thomas wrote:

> 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?)

Do you think the people who insist on wanting to use DHCPv6 IA_NA will 
instead be fine with DHCPv6 IA_PD /64 per device instead? The device 
doesn't *have* to have IA_NA on the "wan" interface, it could assign this 
/64 to itself and use it for tethering and its own use, so with A=0, M=1, 
O=1 DHCPv6 could give (minimum, preferrably larger like /62 or /60) /64 PD 
and this would solve Lorenzos stated problem (albeit with added code).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se