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Re: Are IPv6 auto-configured addresses transient?

Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> Wed, 07 October 2009 22:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: Are IPv6 auto-configured addresses transient?
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:15:35 -0700
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On Oct 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote:

> 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.

or to change periodically, such as once a day.

> Antonio Querubin
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