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Re: Disabling temporary addresses by default?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 30 January 2020 14:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: Disabling temporary addresses by default?
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Comments: In-reply-to Gyan Mishra <hayabusagsm@gmail.com> message dated "Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:46:31 -0500."
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Gyan Mishra <hayabusagsm@gmail.com> wrote:
    >    The main reason this topic comes has up is due to possible impact of
    > usage of the temporary address when it gets deprecated with long lived
    > session.  That’s the crux of why this topic is critical and has severe

So I thought that the Linux kernel did this, but I discovered my long-lived
SSH session on my newly-re-installed laptop (with temporary addresses enabled
by default. I had turned them off on the prevous install) died yesterday
morning.

My opinion is that we should re-open the SHIM6 work.

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