Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Wed Jun 10 21:08:12 UTC 2015

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:58:06 -0400, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at colitti.com>  
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jon Bane <jon at nnbfn.net> wrote:
>> DHCPv6 - RFC3315 - Category: Standards Track
>> 464XLAT - RFC6877 - Category: Informational
>
> Ooo, that's fun, can I play too?

We aren't asking you to support BGP, or SNMP. We're DEMANDING you support  
a FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT of IPv6. DHCPv6 is not *optional*. And every  
reason you've given to date sounds like a whiny I-Don't-Like-It political  
agenda. The fact that others have made it work is proof of your  
asshattery. This has been going around for **YEARS**. You've spent orders  
of magnitude more time defending your "no" position than it would take to  
actually include DHCPv6 support. In *two days* of bitching on NANOG, every  
one of your positions has been shot down, and solutions to every corner  
case has been presented -- sure, the network policy could still render  
things non-workable (no PD, only one address, etc.)

Will IPv4 only apps work with only one v6 address, no. (or "not easily")  
But then, IPv4 isn't IPv6; any kludge to get one to work within the other  
is 100% BS hackery (because no one thought about migration or  
interoperability. dual-stack was declared the answer, and the WG patted  
themselves on the back.)

Given the choice of ZERO network access, or ("legacy" ???) IPv4 only apps  
not working, I'll take the later. The people in charge of those lacking  
apps need to fix their shit.