Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns

Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by HerraBRE on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:30AM (#2432104)

Aside from the predictable troubles the author experienced as an early adopter, I find it interesting that he has stumbled on one of the few motives web hosts and service providers might have to deploy services on native v6 (instead of relying 6-to-4 NAT): easier tracking and profiling of customers, by recording the MAC portion of their visitors v6 IP addresses.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by justincormack on Monday April 11, 2011 @08:51AM (#2432366)

It is quite funny seeing the term "early adopter" used for something this old. I had IPv6 ADSL about 7 years ago, but it was pretty pointless back then other than being able to ping6 places, and ended up discontinuing it. Doesn't sound like there is much more happening now. We need a killer app for ipv6.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by bensummers on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:47AM (#2432128)

I'm sure we can shame Microsoft and Apple into using random numbers instead of MAC addresses.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by sqrt2 on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:10AM (#2432166)

It's quite silly that the author doesn't know this, but the feature he requests exists already and has existed for 10 years -- Privacy Extesions for SLAAC in IPv6 (RFC3041). It's even enabled by default on Windows.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by pieter on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:26AM (#2432192)

You're right, and I heard it's also enabled by default on OS X Lion. It's already enabled by default in the newer iOS builds.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by bensummers on Monday April 11, 2011 @07:29AM (#2432199)

Got link for the "enabled by default in Windows" bit? Which versions does this apply to? I'd like to add that correction to the article.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by sqrt2 on Monday April 11, 2011 @08:12AM (#2432281)

I've seen it on Vista, 7 and on XP once IPv6 is enabled. Concerning sources, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=rfc%2... turns up a few articles.

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Re:Adventures in IPv6: Reliability and privacy concerns by HerraBRE on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:48AM (#2432130)

I'd sign that petition. :-)

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