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Look at what Android does with MAC address randomization on wireless networks. We will probably see something similar with IPv6.
by throitallaway 4y ago
Look at what Android does with MAC address randomization on wireless networks. We will probably see something similar with IPv6.
- CaliforniaKarl 4y ago> We will probably see something similar with IPv6. It's been available for some time: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360/2014/privacy-extensions-for-ipv6-slaac/ https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/deploy360/2014/pri... On my macOS system, I currently have four IPv6 IPs (excluding the link-local IP), all of which are random.
- gerdesj 4y agoNot just Android. My laptop does it too (NetworkManager). That's just IPv4 on devices designed to travel so it seems a fair thing to do. Bloody pain to diagnose why a static DHCP lease isn't working the first time, after that you find the mechanisms to turn it off. Nearly everything does it for IPv6, for a given value of everything! For decades we have generally allowed all outbound and worried and fretted about and filtered inbound. I think it is time for us all to get a grip and do the job properly. However, with the delights of DNS over http and the like, the horse has not only bolted but has a new paint job, far better shoes than you can afford, eats grass that was prepared by a Michelin starred chef and belongs to someone else now. We all need to be far more sophisticated about how traffic (knowledge/ideas/data) flows in and out of our networks/lives. Packet filtering is just one tool in the box and worrying about an addressing scheme being global (IPv6) instead of a weird hybrid (IPv4) is completely missing the real issue stabbing you in the nadgers.