Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Joel Maslak jmaslak at antelope.net
Wed Jun 10 03:45:38 UTC 2015


Of course I've been up too long, ignore the idiot (me).  :)

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Joel Maslak <jmaslak at antelope.net> wrote:

> Most APs don't support bridging, not enough addresses in the protocol
> (without enabling WDS or whatever modern versions of that are).
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> said:
>> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:59:47 +1000, Karl Auer said:
>> > > Hope the question doesn't make me look like an idiot, but why does
>> using
>> > > stateful DHCPv6 mean having to go back to NAT?
>> >
>> > How does the device ask for a *second* DHCPv6'ed address for tethering
>> or
>> > whatever?
>>
>> It's called "bridging".  Let whatever is being tethered ask directly for
>> its own address.
>> --
>> Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net>
>>
>
>



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