[125738] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Apr 22 07:47:52 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100422113039.GA8190@vacation.karoshi.com.>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:46:50 -0400
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:30 AM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0the idea is covered by one or more patents held by cisco.
Won't stop the worms from using it to hide which PC they're living on.
-Bill
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