Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Wed Jun 10 12:44:52 UTC 2015

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote:

> In particular comment 105 is illuminating. Android is apparently fully
> on-board with mobile carriers' desire to break tethering, even going so
> far as to implement a feature whose *sole purpose* is to break
> thethering.
>
> Yet, at the same time, you refuse to implement DHCPv6 on WiFi because it
> *might*, as a *side effect*, break tethering. This does not strike me
> as very consistent.
>

Tethering is just one example that we know about today. Another example is
464xlat. And that's not counting future applications that can take
advantage of multiple IP addresses that we haven't thought of yet, and that
we will have if we get stuck with
there-are-more-IPv6-addresses-in-this-subnet-than-grains-of-sand-but-you-only-get-one-because-that's-how-we-did-it-in-IPv4
networks.