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RE: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 08:59:56 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Tony Hain wrote:
I filed a platform bug on this back in the ICS timeframe, and it still persists. As I recall, there are 2 flags provided by the OS related to RA handling. Rather than using the one that sets a preference between the Cell vs. Wifi interface, at least Samsung (possibly others) have chosen to use the other flag that says to completely ignore the WiFi RA if an RA on the Cell interface has ever occurred. This means devices that have no IPv6 on their Cell interface will appear to work fine on WiFi.
I just re-verified (same Nexus4 using 5.1.1 on swedish mobile provider Tele2):
I disable wifi.I have dual stack on my mobile bearer (PDP context). Verified with 10/10 for both ipv4 and ipv6 on test-ipv4.com (no 464xlat though, this is NAT44:ed IPv4 and native IPv6 on the mobile side).
I enable wifi.After a few seconds the Nexus4 connects to my home wifi and starts using it, I get 10/10 for IPv4 on test-ipv4.com and 9/10 for IPv6 because my provider DNS resolver doesn't support native IPv6 lookups.
I claim that there is a platform bug, because there is never a reason to ignore the WiFi RA. Use the other flag to set a preference if that is needed, but ignoring the RA just breaks things in unexpected ways. LC has did a hand-wave that the "ignore RA" flag is needed for battery life, but beyond that we appear to be stuck in a world where Clueless OEMs believe in breaking one network when another might exist.
Well, it's not present on my Google device anyhow. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6, (continued)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Chris Adams (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 George, Wes (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Matt Palmer (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mark Tinka (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- RE: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tony Hain (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 09)
- RE: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Tony Hain (Jun 10)
- RE: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Jared Mauch (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Doug Barton (Jun 10)
- DHCPv6 route option (was Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6) Masataka Ohta (Jun 10)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 A . L . M . Buxey (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Lorenzo Colitti (Jun 09)
- Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6 Hugo Slabbert (Jun 09)