All, I am reposting this because I got a couple of updates from IRC.
Let me know what you think. Thanks, William
Title: dhcpcd 6.4.2 defaults to stable private IPv6 addresses Author: William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2014-07-17 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <=net-misc/dhcpcd-6.4.2 dhcpcd-6.4.2 and newer supports IPv6 stable private addresses when using IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) as described in RFC-7217 [1]. The configuration file shipped with dhcpcd activates this feature by default, because it means that a machine cannot be tracked across multiple networks since its address will no longer be based on the hardware address of the interface. We did receive a report in testing that IPv6 connectivity was lost due to this change [2]. If you are concerned about losing IPv6 connectivity, I recommend commenting out the line in dhcpcd.conf that says "slaac private" when you upgrade. See the references below for why the upstream default is to use private addresses. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7217 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514198 [3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-00 [4] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2014/06/04/msg004572.html
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