[ipv6hackers] Dynamic prefixes & privacy (was: IPv6 prefix changing)

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 20 15:17:35 CET 2012


On 16 Mar 2012, at 13:54, Karl Auer wrote:
> 
> DHCPv6-supplied addresses fall somewhere between the two. They will have
> the same address on any given network, but different addresses on
> different networks. So same difficulty for sessile computers, slightly
> better for mobile computers.

DHCPv6 supports issuing privacy/temporary addresses, I believe.

Thanks for the new word for my dictionary though :)

Tim




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