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RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
From: "TJ" <trejrco () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:50:15 -0400
No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is only ever something you want in very specific circumstances.You'll love RFC 4941 as implemented by Windows Vista and later.Their awful experimental IPv6 stack in XP already does 3041, so I assume
Vista,
2008, and 7 all do the same. In the XP case, it's not very agressive in rotating addresses.
Nope, different. No EUI64 at all - goes straight to randomized IIDs, but (cough) not to be confused with Temporary/Privacy IIDs. Randomized Link-local, randomized non-link local (Site|UniqueLocal|Global). FWIW - WinXP uses 24hours/change_in_prefix/reboot as the default criteria for new Privacy IID creation, is that not aggressive enough? I'd be curious to know what makes it "awful" IYO, I use it daily and have few complaints ... ? (I think the bigger / better complaint against WinXP is the lack of IPv6-transport support for DNS ... and perhaps the lack of DHCPv6 client functionality as well) /TJ
Current thread:
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses, (continued)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Karl Auer (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses David Conrad (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses David W. Hankins (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Mans Nilsson (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Tony Finch (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Karl Auer (May 06)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 06)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 06)
- RE: Where to buy Internet IP addresses TJ (May 06)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Charles Wyble (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Stephen Sprunk (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Ricky Beam (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Charles Wyble (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Florian Weimer (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Jack Bates (May 05)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Randy Bush (May 04)
- Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses Karl Auer (May 04)