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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by cma on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:53PM (#25742454)
This might hurt privacy a bit as now each device in the house is uniquely tracked (already possible through other fingerprinting, but with this much moreso).
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Re:My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions by the8472 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:59AM (#25742904)
That's what IPv6 privacy extensions are for. The first RFC specifying that is from 2001 and it has been available in most operating systems for a long time now, although it was buggy for a while in windows.
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