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

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) by hendrikboom on Wednesday November 07 2018, @10:06PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 07 2018, @10:06PM (#759172) Homepage Journal

    Mass adoption of IPv6 will happen only when the 128-bit address space is far too small to be usable.

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