[ipv6hackers] IPv6 host scanning in IPv6

[Fernando Gont]

Hi, Chris!

Thanks so much for your feedback! -- Please find my comments in-line...

On 04/20/2012 08:01 AM, Christiaan Ottow wrote:
> Section 3.1.2 of the draft states:
> 
> It is important to note that "privacy addresses" are generated in 
> addition to traditional SLAAC addresses (i.e., based on IEEE 
> identifiers): traditional SLAAC addresses are employed for incoming 
[....]
> According to my best knowledge, this isn't completely true. I haven't
> tested this myself, but it seems that OpenBSD (in the -current and
> the upcoming 5.1) 

Last time I checked (not long ago), OpenBSD did not implement RFC 4941
(privacy addresses) at all. Could you please double-check this?


> drops the EUI-64 address when a privacy address has
> been generated, thus having only the privacy address as global scope
> address. 

This would be somewhat weird, since you usually want a stable address in
addition of privacy/temporary addresses.

Thanks!

Best regards,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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