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by hyperionplays 1071 days ago
If only the android devs would implement dhcpv6 ffs.
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Most home routers don't even implement it, which is a shame since Prefix Delegation really has a use case in the home network.
Why do you need that? What's wrong with SLAAC and RDNSS?
> Why do you need that? What's wrong with SLAAC and RDNSS?

It's handy in many situation where you want to assign specific devices specific addresses, or at least make a log of dynamically chosen addresses (e.g., networks with auditing requirements).

I got a local NTP server and I want to assign it to my network clients. AFAIK the only way is via DHCPv6.
Too bad that this never seems to have gone anywhere: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bcd-6man-ntp-ser...

Also, does Android even use NTP servers that are advertised over IPv4 DHCP? I don't think so, and if not, then is this really a reason?

Most clients ignore that anyways. Like literally only a few Linux distributions add local DHCP ones to their server list.

In 99.99% of the cases you have to intercept or reconfigure.