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Re: Are IPv6 auto-configured addresses transient?

Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net> Wed, 07 October 2009 16:58 UTC

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:00:13 -1000
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
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Subject: Re: Are IPv6 auto-configured addresses transient?
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Vijayrajan ranganathan wrote:

> Is there a notion that auto-configured IPv6 addresses based on
> globally unique prefixes are transient compared to manually configured
> ones?

It depends.  SLAAC-created addresses are pretty much fixed as long as the 
device isn't moved to another network and it's ethernet port swapped out 
with another.  Addresses for anonymity might be considered transient since 
they seem to change upon reboot.


Antonio Querubin
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