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That's entirely misleading. The MAC address is used if you autoconfigure IPv6, it's not required. Also you can enable privacy by requesting your host to genera
by nutjob2 13y ago
That's entirely misleading.
The MAC address is used if you autoconfigure IPv6, it's not required. Also you can enable privacy by requesting your host to generate a random host identifier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy
- politician 13y agoIt's not entirely misleading if you can imagine a certain government requiring registration of devices before allowing access to networks like the Internet.
- kiallmacinnes 13y agoI'm not sure I see how IPv6 would really make that any easier? Privicy extensions or not... Forging a MAC address is trivial.. If that's all you use to enforce the registration, it will be trivial to bypass! And - if government wants to do this.. There are easier ways.
- stephen_g 13y agoI believe pretty much every single IP stack implementation uses privacy extensions by default now.
- justincormack 13y agoActually I don't think that is true yet. FreeBSD does not by default for example.