On 2011-05-08, Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@debian.org> wrote: > i currently wonder if Debian should implement RFC 4941 as default for > wheezy. > > Background: IPv6 configured via router advertisement will use the > hardware address of the ethernet card to encode the IPv6 address. This > raises privacy issues, such as being able to track each single device. > > I therefor wonder, if Debian should be shipped with the privacy > extensions for stateless address autoconfiguration on IPv6 per default > starting with wheezy. > > I would like to hear other developers meanings to this issue, before > proposing this as release goal for wheezy.
it would be great if there were a simple way to control the IPv6 address selection policy (static, SLAAC, SLAAC + privacy extensions, DHCPv6...) from the interfaces(5) file or its successor. -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iqclgt$a74$1...@dough.gmane.org
