Comment 20 for bug 176125

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tonfa (bboissin) wrote : Re: [Bug 176125] Re: Ubuntu should activate the IPv6 privacy extension by default (echo 2 >/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/use_tempaddr)

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 03:00:28PM -0000, Derek Morr wrote:
> RFC 4941, Section 3.6, says that temporary addresses should be disabled
> by default.

ACK, does Vista still does it by default ?
>
> Speaking from an enterprise network perspective, I very much do *not*
> want to see privacy addresses enabled by default, as they can make
> complying with our network security policies much more difficult.

If you manage an enterprise network, you can alway change the policies,
you shouldn't care about the default (and your users shouldn't be able to
override this).

/b

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