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aboardRat4today at 1:53 AM1 replyview on HN

/>Don’t like SLAAC? Don’t use it!

It doesn't work like this. SLAAC is a standard compliant way of distributing addresses, so you MUST support it unless you're running a very specific isolated setup.

Most people using Android will come to your home and ask "do you have WiFi here?"


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throw0101ctoday at 2:00 AM

> Most people using Android will come to your home and ask "do you have WiFi here?"

The Android implementation of IPv6 completely boggles my mind. They have completely refused to implemented DHCPv6 since 2012:

* https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085

But months after client-side DHCP-PD was made an RFC they're implementing that?

* https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/simplifyin...

In what universe does implementing DHCP-PD but not 'regular' DHCPv6 make any kind of sense?

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