Android DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation Support Later This Year

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	Android DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation Support Later This Year (android-developers.googleblog.com)
	4 points by fastest963 268 days ago

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candiddevmike 268 days ago

I've been following this for a while and I really can't wrap my head around the need for this. Why can't android just request multiple addresses instead of requiring a full delegation? Why the hell would it need a /64 (18 quintillion addresses!)? This just seems so overengineered and a giant FU to everyone who just wants basic DHCPv6 support.

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fastest963 268 days ago

Isn't the minimum realistic prefix size you can request /64 so that devices can still do EUI-64?

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