Re: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 in wheezy as default?

[Arnd Hannemann <arnd@arndnet.de>]

Hi,

Am 09.05.2011 11:34, schrieb Vincent Danjean:
> On 08/05/2011 17:33, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
>> i currently wonder if Debian should implement RFC 4941 as default for
>> wheezy.
> [...]
>> I would like to hear other developers meanings to this issue, before
>> proposing this as release goal for wheezy.
> 
> RFC 4941 is a problem if you want to use to use IPv6 and proxy NDP,
> at least until the kernel allow to proxy a network instead of hosts.
> This does not seem for now:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130385156131530&w=2

But if anoyone has enough knowledge to setup proxy NDP he should
be able to disable the privacy extension on its client hosts, too.
Also, wouldn't using DHCPv6 solve this problem as well?

Its really good to know that there exists such a problem with Privacy Extension
and Linux gateways, but in IMO it shouldn't hinder the deployment
of privacy extensions as default for for wheezy.

Best regards
Arnd