V6 still not supported

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Thu Mar 24 21:49:22 UTC 2022


On 3/24/22 2:13 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
>
>> On Mar 24, 2022, at 02:04 , Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>  From 10k meters: IPv6 is different from IPv4 only by:
>> - extension headers
>> - SLAAC instead of DHCP
>> Everything else is minor.
> There’s no such thing as SLAAC instead of DHCP… There’s SLACC in addition to DHCP and operators
> are free to choose the solution that best fits their network.
>
> I suppose the argument could be made that Android is SLAAC instead of DHCP, but I don’t buy that as a
> complete showstopper these days. I do wish Lorenzo and Google would pull their collective crania out of
> their hind quarters on this issue, but my vote is to treat Android as damage and route around it.

If you have SLAAC and DHCP4 isn't that good enough? Is there a DHCP4 
option for v6 DNS addresses too?

Mike, not that I disagree about the silliness of not implementing DHCP6



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