lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 12:05:33 UTC 2009
>> You're welcome. I did two KK server installs this weekend, one 32-bit
>> on a netbook (with openssh, apache, samba, nfs) and one 64-bit on a
>> Dell rack server (with openssh and samba). Both only log the "Disable
>> Privacy Extensions" once at boot.
> My best guess (and it is an uneducated one) is that something in the
> upgrade was left over or just enough different to cause it since your
> installs didn't show it.
> I don't really understand what the Privacy Extensions do but the server
> is working fine so I guess I'll just live with it for now :-).
IIRC, privacy extensions were introduced because the initial plan for
ipv6 was to include the mac address in ipv6 addresses and that was
found not to provide enough privacy.
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