From: Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>
To: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>
Cc: iwd@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: IPv6 Privacy Extension support?
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 20:32:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240304193253.GA25@magnesium.vonhaugwitz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <629785cf-77c3-4b14-ab58-d4b2c75f254a@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 04:30:27AM -0800, James Prestwood wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the privacy extensions specifically, but you can
> enable MAC address randomization which should hide the MAC for you. You can
> check the man pages for more details but in main.conf something like:
>
> [Settings]
> AddressRandomization=network
MAC address randomization hides the physical MAC address but does not
prevent device tracking (within the same network). With privacy extension
enabled, the IPv6 address is randomly regenerated every few hours.
For more details see [RFC_4941].
Best regards
Hannes
[RFC_4941] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4941
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-04 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-01 14:46 IPv6 Privacy Extension support? Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-03-04 12:30 ` James Prestwood
2024-03-04 19:32 ` Hannes von Haugwitz [this message]
2024-03-04 21:40 ` Grant Erickson
2024-03-06 12:19 ` James Prestwood
2024-08-04 21:01 ` Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-08-05 12:44 ` James Prestwood
2024-08-06 17:38 ` Hannes von Haugwitz
2024-08-09 17:54 ` Hannes von Haugwitz
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