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Re: Question re session hijacking in dual stack environments w/MacOS


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 03:46:40 -0400

On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:46:47 -0500, Doug McIntyre said:

I suspect this is OSX implementing IPv6 Privacy Extensions. Where OSX
generates a new random IPv6 address, applies it to the interface, and then
drops the old IPv6 addresses as they stale out. Sessions in use or not.

Isn't the OS supposed to wait for the last user of the old address to close
their socket before dropping it?

sudo sysctl -w net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=0

sudo sh -c 'echo net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr=0 >> /etc/sysctl.conf'


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