Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

Fri Jun 12 01:10:35 UTC 2015

Well, most systems implemented DHCPv6 support a long time ago.  Despite
other efforts to have Google support DHCPv6 for Android, nothing has
happened.  There is nothing wrong with using NANOG to call out a major
vendor for this, even if they are a significant sponsor.

Just because you don't agree with the direction of the discussion doesn't
mean it has no value.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Ca By <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeh, we get it.  Repeating yourself is not helpful. The horse is dead ....
>
> Please move your android feature request to a forum more fit for your
> request.
>
> On Thursday, June 11, 2015, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
>
> > > From: Laszlo Hanyecz
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:42 PM
> > >
> > > from the university net Nazis
> >
> > Wow, it must be nice to live in a fairyland utopia where there is no
> DMCA,
> > no federal laws such as HEOA, and a wide variety of other things you
> > clearly
> > know nothing about that require universities to be able to track their
> > users
> > and manage their networks.
> >
> > > attacking DHCP is not the right one, but it sounds like his goal is to
> > make IPv6
> > > better than how IPv4 turned out.
> >
> > I don't think a single person here has a goal of making IPv6 worse, nor
> > necessarily has any objection to the improvements he has suggested.
> OTOH, I
> > think the number of people who think he is making a good decision in
> > refusing to implement DHCPv6 is practically nil.
> >
> > > diplomatic way, I admire his courage in posting here and trying to
> reason
> > with
> > > the mob.
> >
> > If he really wants to validate his position on not implementing DHCPv6,
> > maybe he should approach all of the other vendors who already did and get
> > them to remove it. Being the one and only holdout on implementing a
> widely
> > deployed Internet standard looks more like lunatic fringe than visionary
> > leader 8-/.
> >
> >
> >
>

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