Re:Reasons for servers to support IPv6
by kstrauser on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:12PM
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This is in IPv6, not v4. I highlight that because you mention DHCP, which generally isn’t used there. And it’s not the MAC address that changes, but the 64-bit interface identifier. Ethernet would probably stop working if the MAC address changed with any regularity. You can read more about this at https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2014/12/ipv6-privacy-ad...
From that article written in 2014, these OSes have privacy extensions enabled by default:
- All versions of Windows after Windows XP
- All versions of Mac OS X from 10.7 onward
- All versions of iOS since iOS 4.3
- All versions of Android since 4.0 (ICS)
- Some versions of Linux (and for others it can be easily configured)
From that article written in 2014, these OSes have privacy extensions enabled by default:
- All versions of Windows after Windows XP
- All versions of Mac OS X from 10.7 onward
- All versions of iOS since iOS 4.3
- All versions of Android since 4.0 (ICS)
- Some versions of Linux (and for others it can be easily configured)