Android is getting DHCPv6-PD support

[Darin755]

Simplifying advanced networking with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation

Maybe this will lead to more carriers supporting DHCPv6-PD?

[brada4]

Duplicate of

Support for P flag in IPv6 router advertisement (RFC 9762)?

Hi, I was looking at Google’s announcement on Android dev blog. There they mention “P” flag in router advertisement, but I can’t find it in the network interface settings or in the wiki. Does odhcpd support this and is it automatically enabled?

carriers dont PD, they BGP

[zekica]

If you think that this will nudge carriers to support PD, it won’t.

What they are describing is a way for android to get it’s own /64 when connected to wifi/ethernet or another local network. When connecting to a cellular network, the phone already gets /64 as part of the 4G/5G PDN session.

This enables android devices to use the local network in the same way it would the cellular network - use the one /64 for it’s containers, VMs, tethered devices.