Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Apr 23 04:29:49 UTC 2010


On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:30 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

>> 
>> On the other hand, I could swear I've seen a draft where the PC picks
>> up random unused addresses in the lower 64 for each new outbound
>> connection for anonymity purposes. Even if there is no such draft, it
>> wouldn't exactly be hard to implement. It won't take NAT to anonymize
>> the PCs on a LAN with IPv6.
> 
> 	the idea is covered by one or more patents held by cisco.
> 
> --bill
> 
>> Regards,
>> Bill Herrin

It's default behavior in Windows 7 and is specified in an RFC.

Look for IPv6 Privacy Addressing.

Owen





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