On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:36:18PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
The thing that is good about IPv6 is that once you get yourself a /
64, you can subdivide it yourself and still have four billion times
the IPv4 address space. (But you'd be giving up the autoconfiguration
advantages.)
I noticed that by deafult MS Vista doesn't use autoconf as per 2462,
rather it uses a 3041-like random address. See:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/new_network.mspx
"Random Interface IDs for IPv6 Addresses
To prevent address scans of IPv6 addresses based on the known company IDs of
network adapter manufacturers, Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Vista by
default generate random interface IDs for non-temporary autoconfigured IPv6
addresses, including public and link-local addresses."
That reads to me like no 2462 by default. Maybe I'm misinterpreting.
One could envisage an option where that randomness is applied to 48 host
bits not 64. If you really really wanted to do that.
--
Tim/::1
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