dhcpcd-discuss

On 29/09/2017 11:48, harald.albrecht wrote:
> The DHCPv6 office guys are already feeling the heat: Android won't
> implement DHCPv6 for the reasons commonly brought forward by office IT
> stuff, because it's not worth the hassle for a Google which makes money
> on a much bigger scale from having as many devices always connected ...
> and office IT is just too tiny a group. There have been enterprise "big
> fishes" asking from Android DHCPv6 and simply got no answer at all from
> Google. That's as good an answer as well.

Android uses dhcpcd-6.8.2 (old version, boo) on wifi connections (yay!).
That version had DHCPv6 support.
Now, a lot of bugs have been fixed from then until now
(dhcpcd-7.0.0-rc2), but it should work fine for getting a IA_NA address.

One thing I find quite amsuing is that they've no attempt to merge any
of their changes downstream.
Maybe because I abandoned dhcpcd-dbus in favour of the good old unix socket.

Roy