Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Wed Jun 10 11:39:16 UTC 2015


Hi,

> Ok, let's see how that goes, even among the few people on this thread.
> 
> Question for everyone on this thread that has said that DHCPv6 NA is a
> requirement: suppose that Android supported stateful DHCPv6 addressing,
> requested a number of addresses, and did not use any of them if the number
> of addresses received was less than N.
> 
> What does N need to be?

well, from memory and a quick discussion with a colleague, our cisco wireless
kit is only happy with devices having 8 IPv6 addresses at most - otherwise
the older addresses get removed from the neighbour cache.

is that a good starting point?  :-)

alan



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