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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: brambonne@google.com
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	hannes@stressinduktion.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	lorenzo@google.com, jeffv@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ipv6: Use dev_addr in stable-privacy address generation
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:46:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200327.154609.741168661523502246.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABWXKLwamYiLhwUHsb5nZHnyZb4=6RrrdUg3CiX7CZOuVime7g@mail.gmail.com>

From: Bram Bonné <brambonne@google.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:50:07 +0100

> Could you help me understand the use cases where the admin / user
> chooses to use MAC address randomization, but still wants an IPv6
> link-local address that remains stable across these networks? My
> assumption was that the latter would defeat the purpose of the former,
> though it's entirely possible that I'm missing something.

Someone could renumber all of their MACs using a certain numbering
scheme, but that would not ensure the kind of uniqueness that the
physical MAC does.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-27 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26  9:42 [RFC PATCH] ipv6: Use dev_addr in stable-privacy address generation Bram Bonné
2020-03-26 18:45 ` David Miller
2020-03-27 11:50   ` Bram Bonné
2020-03-27 13:06     ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2020-03-27 17:15       ` Bram Bonné
2020-03-27 20:51         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2020-04-03 14:40           ` Bram Bonné
2020-03-27 22:46     ` David Miller [this message]

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