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Re: Privacy IPv6 addresses (RFC 4941) and the SNMP IP address table in RFC 4293

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> Wed, 25 June 2008 18:05 UTC

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From: Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com>
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To: Kristine Adamson <adamson@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Privacy IPv6 addresses (RFC 4941) and the SNMP IP address table in RFC 4293
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Hi Kristine,

Kristine Adamson wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    I have a question about the SNMP IP address table in RFC 4293.  For 
> privacy IPv6 addresses (as described in RFC 3041), it appears that the 
> ipAddressOrigin MIB object is supposed to be set to a value of 
> random(6).  Is this true also for these addresses as defined by RFC 4941

Yes. The ipAddressOrigin will be set to random for addresses generated 
using RFC4941 as well.

> where sites can selectively enable or disable the use of privacy 
> addresses for some prefixes?

I am not sure how this plays a role in picking the ipAddressOrigin 
value. Maybe I misunderstood the scope of your question.

Cheers
Suresh
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