Windows 7 and SLAAC?

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Tue Mar 30 20:55:41 CEST 2010


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:04:57PM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> >> Microsoft has a "Cable Guy" article that describes Vista/Win 7
> >> autoconf behavior, including the netsh CLI interface syntax for this
> >> particular setting.
> >>
> >> netsh interface ipv6 set global randomize identifiers=disabled
> >>
> >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.08.cableguy.aspx   
> >> for
> >> more information.
> 
> I would assume that these are not constant.
> 
> RFCs 4941 describes "privacy extensions" that yield changing (pseudo)  
> random interface IDs and RFC 5157 provides a background into why this  
> is could be a good thing.

Different thing.  Win7 has 4941 IPv6 addresses *and* not-directly-MAC-
related IPv6 addresses.

Gert Doering
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