I can cast Flickster from my Android phone (Nexus 6p) to my Chromecast device just fine.

As a UK resident, this does indeed suck balls.

I wrote dhcpcd-gtk and dhcpcd-qt to handle things like picking a SSID, entering a passphrase and basic IP config. Works well, works on BSD and Linux.

So what stops you from putting your own OS in then, as it seems that is where your beef is?
EdgeRouter uses a removeable USB flash stick for storage.

I put NetBSD on mine and updating the config is just like any other NetBSD machine. The NPF firewall is also quick to configure and works well enough for my needs.

One TP-Link TL-WR841N/ND v9 wireless hub needs a reboot after watching a few movies over it.
My main TP-Link TL-WA901N/ND v2 wireless AP needs a reboot every few months.
Both run OpenWRT Barrier Breaker - I should try upgrading them to Chaos Calmer.

My TP-Link 200Mbs Ethernet over Power freeze every few days, my ASUS ones fair better but still freeze once in a while.

I used to run a few DrayTek ADSL routers which also froze, but since upgrading to fiber I have plugged my OpenReach modem into the EdgeRouter.

Basically, all the above, freezes at various frequencies.
The EdgeRouter does not, never has and hopefully never will.

Maybe I shouldn't buy TP link gear, but I can't easily find similar priced and soft modable gear.

Ubiqiti EdgeRouter is exactly this: dual core MIPS64 @ 1Ghz, 512Mb memory and a removable USB flash stick for storage.
https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/e...
This is ample for my needs. I bought the 3 port version about a year ago for £80.

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/en...

As of today, NetBSD-current has an uptime of about 6 months - which is when I made the last kernel modifications to support the NPF firewall.
This is more uptime than any other SOHO gear I have and the performance of the unit is exceptional.

It doesn't, it relies on a 3rd party like wpa_supplicant or the kernel for that.

My initial reply to the parent was NOT about wlan discovery.

EDIT: over a year and a half .... can't read dates in my own source repo ...

for over a year and a half now!

What is more, both products also work on BSDs with GTK+ and Qt front ends.
Who needs this NetworkManager anyway?

dhcpcd (which also works on BSD) has had support for this (RFC7217) for almost a year now, but it's now news when NetworkManager (Linux only) get's it?

But DHCPv6 also supplies INFORMATION REQUEST which designed to operate without address assignment. It supplies things like DNS.

With Windows not supporting RDNSS in RA, it requires DHCPv6 DNS via the information request to work in a pure IPv6 world.
In the same vein, Android not supporting DHCPv6 requires RDNSS in the RA to work in a pure IPv6 world.

So as it stands right now, we have to run both if we want to support both OS and that sadly means redundant data going around the network.
I cannot speak for Microsoft, but I do know that Android uses an old version of dhcpcd.
dhcpcd has supported DHCPv6 for a long time now, so they just have to upgrade it to get it to work, which means this is purely a political rather than technical problem.

This is not true. As you wrote RFC3315, I'm surprised you forgot avout Section 21 which is all about authentication.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf...

Why is DNSSL a Very Bad Idea?

Mod parent up, my HTC M8 got 5.0.1 months ago on the O2 network.
I think it depends on the carrier as well as the manufacturer.

You're right, OpenRC cannot keep up because it's not a DHCP client, nor a binary system logger, nor any of the other things systemd has now assimilated.
It's just an piece of software which starts the system in a deterministic fashion using existing software that's been very well tested, such as sysvinit on Linux the respective BSD init on the BSDs.

OpenRC is just an init system, it will never be anything more than that. And why should it be? There are much better system loggers and network management tools out there than what systemd offers.

OpenRC is written in C for the most part. Each init script is shell based though and works fine with pretty much any shell.
You can use bash if you want to, but I prefer to run dash.

As to the parallel start up - well, some users do have an issue depending on what services they have installed and configured.
I personally have no problem with it and use it all the time.

As to the speed? Well, it gets me to the desktop in the same number of seconds as systemd.