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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @11:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @11:16AM (#758906)

    To allow fixed addresses according to a network's acceptable range. Better auditing and configuration of systems to use the network. And better anonymity of incoming/outgoing packets since they aren't based on a real or partially obfuscated hardware address.

    If we wanted hardware addresses in our network ids we would still be using IPX after all.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday November 07 2018, @09:08PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Wednesday November 07 2018, @09:08PM (#759147) Homepage Journal

    If we wanted hardware addresses in our network ids we would still be using IPX after all.

    IPX? Are you nuts? DECNet all the way! ;)

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