Comment 33 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) | #33 |
On Jan 18, 2011 9:46 PM, "Erik B. Andersen" <email address hidden>
wrote:
>
> >At many higher education institutions, we have policies that we need to
know who is using any given IP address at any point in time.
If you *need* to know, and computer are self-managed, then the fact that
privacy addresses are disabled by default doesn't really help. You need to
log data from the switches as well.
> >Privacy addresses make this much, much harder. Yes, we can disable them
on managed machines, but not all machines on our network are managed. For
example, student laptops on wireless networks. So, the default setting
matters. Microsoft enables privacy addresses by default on Vista and 7, and
it is already creating problems for us.
And windows isn't going away.
> >Frankly, privacy addresses do very little to enhance privacy and create
significant headaches for network administrators.
> I just don't see how changing the default will do anything when the user
could just change it back if they wanted to.