>> 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?
I'd like IA_PD to work both CPEs on the LAN side, and I'd like it to
work for
>> 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.
>
> DHCPv6 PD is one of the means suggested by RFC 7934, yes. I'm not sure that
> the folks asking for IA_NA would be happy with IA_PD
> 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
> > IPv6 firewall non-on by default. I$,1ry(Bve not seen that myself in any
> > product up to now.
>
> How many products have you looked at? We're still talking about home
> routers now, right?
I was commenting on "all the IPv6 OSs *for hosts and servers*, have the
IPv6 firewall on by
> However, I believe that all the IPv6 OSs for hosts and servers, have the IPv6
> firewall on by default, so this should not be a big issue, unless you have
> other devices with no IPv6 firewall (IP cameras?), which I think is not
> common, because those devices (what I$,1ry(Bve seen up to
> At the end, the whole behavior is because some host have problems in
> handling situations where they have an IPv6 address configured and now
> internet connectivity. But the solution to this requires that the host
> is able to understand and work with RIO options, which seams to be "at
> the
> > 1) Many DNS changes for services behind the dyn prefix (not all devices
> > are able to update DNS records)
> > 2) Security policies with DynDNS ranges (how to allow a dyn IPv6-range
> > in other firewall policies?)
> > 3) Routing inside IPv6 VPN tunnels (solved with OSPFv3, but maybe not
> >
I'm not a native speaker of English, but I struggle to understand it
any other way than you're saying there's something broken about
Yannis' deployment. I mean, your reply wasn't even a standalone
statement, but a continuation of Yannis' sentence. :-P
That statement is correct though.
