IPV6 addresses

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:13:41PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-06-25 at 11:43 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > As I understand it there isn't much particular benefit in having
> > privacy extensions cover link-local addresses
> 
> Depends how private you want to be.

Sure, there are some edge cases on a local network where it might be
useful.

> > On the other hand link-local addresses are only rather rarely useful
> > anyway, so ...
> 
> They are perhaps not very visibly useful, but they are essential on
> the local link.

I meant for explicit use; I understand that they are technically
required for things like neighbour discovery.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]