On 1/4/20 09:12, [email protected] wrote:
There are several reasons that people shout about DHCPv6:
...
- politics: probably the most contentious area. One well-known example
- is how ipv6 on cellular impacts carrier vs handset control
- politics. 3GPP specifies that the ppp context for tethering must
- support SLAAC and therefore it provides a /64 for LAN
- connectivity. This means that the handset applications have as much
- address space as they need. The argument goes that if DHCPv6 were a
- viable option for this, then the mobile operators would effectively
- wrestle control of the applications running on the handset (and
- ultimately control of the handset capabilities itself away from the
- handset software vendors) by handing control of the number of
- available IPv6 addresses to the cellular operator. This is, at least,
- the reason cited by the Android authors for the point-blank refusal to
- implement DHCPv6 in android (bug ID 32621).
We are already 90% of the way here: Make IA_PD work for hosts, not
just for routers. That way Android handsets can have as many addresses
as they want.
You mean e.g. support IA_PD at CPEs on the LAN side?
Thanks!
Cheers,
--
Fernando Gont
e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected]
PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1
