[mdlug] Last meeting

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
>> Garry Stahl wrote:
>> The gist I got out of it was that it's basically similar to, but not
>> identical to, IPv4.
>>
>>
>
> You need to spend more time at the Gist mill.  Much more powerful and
> flexable than IPv4.  It does mean one thing however.  With IPv6 a given
> address is going  to mean a given device.  Abet a networking device, be
> that built in or add on.  The use of MAC addresses in the IP address
> does nail it down to one device, period.  That will have good points and
> bad points.

Well, not just one address to a device. Every interface can have an
arbitrary number of IP addresses--even multiple global-scope addresses
with different prefixes, easily configured if you have multiple nodes
broadcasting Router Announcements.

There's also IPv6 privacy extensions, which uses mostly unique IPs for
outbound connections, to improve the privacy of an IPv6 user. (I
expect that to depend on the local network being at least a /64; you
could probably kill it by forcing the prefix to be longer, and use
DHCPv6.)

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