On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 06:58:43 -0500 Doug McIntyre <mer...@geeks.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 03:46:40AM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu > wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:46:47 -0500, Doug McIntyre said: > > > > > I suspect this is OSX implementing IPv6 Privacy Extensions. Where > > > OSX generates a new random IPv6 address, applies it to the > > > interface, and then drops the old IPv6 addresses as they stale > > > out. Sessions in use or not. > > > > Isn't the OS supposed to wait for the last user of the old address > > to close their socket before dropping it? > > In my experience, no, it doesn't. Ie. the main reason I disable it is > because my ssh sessions hung after some period of time, so ssh had > sockets open, but yet the IPv6 addresses kept rotating out. > Disabling it definately made the ssh sessions stable on OSX. > > Apple codes to the masses. Average web browser user or mail client > won't care, that is all they test against. Not people that leave ssh > sessions open for days to weeks at a time. > Since no one else has mentioned it yet, mosh is another solution to this for ssh: https://mosh.mit.edu/ > > > > > > > > >
