Dhcpd with ipv6 support

[Bill Shirley]

No matter who the vendor is, for IPv6 all devices require a Router Advertisement Daemon.

iDevices support DHCPv6.  Most Android devices do not.  For your reading pleasure:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085

Bill

On 8/9/2020 6:47 PM, Joshua Stark wrote:
> Hi Krishna,
>
> iPhone's are the same.
>
> You need to use a *Router Advertisement Daemon* to send back the flags needed for the client to go looking for a DHCPv6 server.
>
> There is lots of good resources out on the web, what you need to do is look at DHCPv6 vs SLAAC (Stateless Address 
> Auto-Configuration)
>
> For the RAD, I use radvd on my gateway, the configuration can be found here: https://linux.die.net/man/5/radvd.conf
>
> I use the options:
>    # Set to on to turn on Stateful DHCPv6
>    # If set to off, then will use Stateless IPv6
>    AdvManagedFlag on;
>    AdvOtherConfigFlag on;
>
> To tell the clients to go looking for DHCPv6
>
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
> On 10/8/20 07:59, Bill Shirley wrote:
>>
>> Most Android devices don't support getting an IPv6 address via DHCP.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On 8/9/2020 4:11 AM, Anjali Krishna wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am testing ipv6 support between my embedded board and Android phone.
>>>
>>> Two embedded boards are getting connected with ipv6 when running dhcpd - 6 in server and dhclient - 6 in client side.
>>>
>>> As an extension of the testing,I configured my board as ipv6 hostpot and tries connecting my android phone which supports 
>>> ipv6.. The process got stuck at obtaining ip address message in phone wifi screen.
>>>
>>> I m doubting some configuration is missing in my wifi server dhcpd configuration.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated
>>>
>>> Regard,
>>> Anjali
>>>
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