This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri Jun 7 17:27:49 2024 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.116.70.75]) by kylie.puddingonline.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9V7lTU18068 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:47:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:37:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:37:26 -0500 Received: from netcore.fi ([193.94.160.1]:17678 "EHLO netcore.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:37:25 -0500 Received: from localhost (pekkas@localhost) by netcore.fi (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9V7heO19666; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:43:40 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:43:40 +0200 (EET) From: Pekka Savola To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCNUhGIzFRTEAbKEI=?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 In-Reply-To: <20021031.163209.595697847.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote: > In article (at Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:25:01 +0200 (EET)), Pekka Savola says: > > > I belive privacy extensions can be harmful for especially long-lived > > applications and lead to a false sense of security: they should not be > > enabled (by any definition of enabled) by default. > > Temporary addresses are generated (on most links) but not used by default > (latter is done by source address selection) by my patch. > Set sysctl net.ipv6.conf.ethXX.use_tempaddr > 1 to use it by default. > > (I have per-application setsockopt interface but it is not included > because patch for source address selection is not accepted at this moment.) Generating and re-generating new temporary addresses seems to be a useless work and just new addresses unless they're being used at least by some applications. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/