Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Apr 22, 2010, at 4:30 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.
>
> --bill
>
> > Regards,
> > Bill Herrin

It's default behavior in Windows 7 and is specified in an RFC.

Look for IPv6 Privacy Addressing.

Owen