IPv6 address assignment uses SLAAC not DHCPv6 over WiFi

[David Gravereaux]

After days of searching and searching and hours of support calls and even gabbing it up with the Sprint guy at my local RadioShack, I finally had to discover it myself after unlocking my RA server to allow for both stateful *and* stateless and, pow, up it comes... a real global-scope ipv6 addy.

Still, a working dhcpv6 client would make management much easier.

 

[David Gravereaux]

True for the S4 and S5, too. Also, for the Barnes & Noble NOOK with Android 2.2.1

 

[David Gravereaux]

Issue closed Dec 2014

https:// code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32621

 

[David Gravereaux]

IT pros blast Google over Android’s refusal to play nice with IPv6 (Jun 23, 2015) htt p://ww
w.networkworld.com/article/2939436/lan-wan/it-pros-blast-google-over-android-s-refusal-to-play-nice-with-ipv6.html

 

[David Gravereaux]

Lorenzo 'the guy who killed Android' Colliti, the soon to be ex Google employee of the year

 

[David Gravereaux]

For a guy who says this should just work, he's very wrong. *ANY* well managed network migrating to IPv6 will disable SLAAC in favor of DHCPv6 by setting the managed flag in the RA server. His claim that this "just works " is highly false, frustrating and lacks any easily discovered documentation regarding Android's non-standard behavior.