Too-frequent change of privacy address / ND monitoring

[Marco Sommani]

On 26/mar/2013, at 14:03, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 03/26/2013 12:47 PM, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
>> Others have also noticed that over wireless, iPads are going in sleep
>> mode quite often and always generate a new SLAAC when they wake up...
>> Dozens of addresses per day...
>> 
> 
> How annoying. Wireless is probably somewhere we could use DHCPv6 (I could just co-locate the DHCPv6 server with the wireless networks since we use centralised/controller wireless) so maybe I'll test that.

Unfortunately, many mobile devices still don't have a stateful DHCPv6 client, so in the absence of SLAAC they would use only IPv4.


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