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Android's Lack of DHCPv6 Support Frustrates Enterprise Network Admins

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the BAD-design-(Broken-As-Designed) dept.

jas writes:

In June 2012, an owner of a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.2 opened a case in Google's Issue Tracker requesting support for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6, otherwise known as DHCPv6, or RFC 3315, which allows for stateful address and connection configuration on devices joining an IPv6 network. DHCPv6, like DHCPv4, is commonly used in enterprise networks for connecting devices.

For the last six years — including through five new major versions of Android — that request has languished, when this week it was marked as "Won't Fix (Intended Behavior)" by Google engineer Lorenzo Colitti. Android is effectively the only platform which lacks support for DHCPv6, making the IPv6 implementation on Android incomplete.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/androids-lack-of-dhcpv6-support-frustrates-enterprise-network-admins/

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Wednesday November 07 2018, @07:18AM

    by coolgopher (1157) on Wednesday November 07 2018, @07:18AM (#758865)

    Then they'd be better off on IPv6, where you don't end up with infernal aliasing of internal addresses all the !&#^ time due to NAT.

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