[125737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Apr 22 07:31:21 2010
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:30:39 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <j2m3c3e3fca1004220418sb1d0e1adm322cb3ec0a9c844c@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
> On the other hand, I could swear I've seen a draft where the PC picks
> up random unused addresses in the lower 64 for each new outbound
> connection for anonymity purposes. Even if there is no such draft, it
> wouldn't exactly be hard to implement. It won't take NAT to anonymize
> the PCs on a LAN with IPv6.
the idea is covered by one or more patents held by cisco.
--bill
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin