Re: IPV6 planning

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 16:01 , Alarig Le Lay <alarig () swordarmor fr> wrote:
>
> On Mon Mar  7 15:51:06 2016, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, Windows actually generates three
> > addresses…
> >
> > 1. Subnet Stable quasi-randomized address unrelated (or at least not
> > reversable to) MAC address.
> > 2. Privacy address which rotates frequently (for some definition of
> > frequently).
> > 3. Stable address related to MAC address.
> >
> > The 3rd one is standard SLAAC.
> > The second one is standard privacy extensions.
> > THe first one is unique to Windows. You’ll get the same address every
> > time you connect to the same subnet, but you won’t see that suffix for
> > that host on any other subnet.
>
> It’s not exactly specific to Windows, dhcpcd use a something like that
> (my IPv6 is 2a00:5884:8316:2653:fd40:d47d:556f:c426). And at least,
> there is a RFC related to that, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217.

Yes, but in the case of Windows, that happens with SLAAC without DHCP.

TTBOMK, this is unique to windows.

Owen