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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:42:14 +1000
In message <5577C6BE.6020905 () mtcc com>, Michael Thomas writes:
On 06/09/2015 08:37 PM, Karl Auer wrote:On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 23:09 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:How does the device ask for a *second* DHCPv6'ed address for tethering or whatever?RFC 3315 says you just chuck in multiple IA_NA (or IA_TA) options. The server will respond with multiple addresses. And if a device makes a second (, third, fourth, ..) request with a different DUID, it'll get a second (,third, fourth,...) address oo, I guess.Wouldn't the right thing to do is have the provider support dhcp prefix delegation, and the tether can run dhcp for its clients? (or even slaac?)
Yes. Providers should support both IA_NA and PD. Tethering could have been done properly with PD at the time but it was decided to leave PD to the next round of the phone spec. as as a result there was all the prefix sharing kludges.
Mike
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Current thread:
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6, (continued)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Ricky Beam (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Christopher Morrow (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Joel Maslak (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Joel Maslak (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Michael Thomas (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Ca By (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mark Andrews (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 George Michaelson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jared Mauch (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Karl Auer (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tore Anderson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 10)