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Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:30:52 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

Since it so easy for a host (relative to ipv4) to have multiple ip
addresses, I like what Microsoft has done. If told by a router, a Win
XP box will assign itself a global unicast address using EUI-64. It
will also create a global unicast anonymous address. This will not be
tied to the hardware, and the OS will also limit how long it uses that

Wasn't this described in an Internet draft ? Do you know what the status is -
I cannot seem to find it.

RFC 3041. There's also
http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/specs/ipv6-address-privacy.html


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