Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Josh Reynolds josh at spitwspots.com
Wed Jun 10 20:46:49 UTC 2015


Memory is cheap, ASICs and FPGAs are getting better all the time.

It might be a problem a few years from now for older hardware, but I 
can't see it causing real issues long term.

Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
www.spitwspots.com

On 06/10/2015 12:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Lorenzo Colitti:
>
>> I think what I said is that supporting DHCPv6-only networks will eventually
>> force OS manufacturers to implement IPv6 NAT. This is because there are
>> many features inside a mobile OS that require multiple IP addresses.
> On many networks, there will be fairly tight limits on the number of
> usable addresses per “port” even with SLAAC, similar to the evolution
> of Ethernet switching, which led to configurable limits of MAC
> addresses per port.  So you'll likely need IPv6 NAT in the future
> anyway.




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