Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:30 AM,  <bmanning () 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.

Won't stop the worms from using it to hide which PC they're living on.

-Bill



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