Re: Enabling SLAAC for IPv6 by default

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 08:27:50AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 25/09/2018 00:11, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:33:50AM +0200, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> > > during my talk yesterday at EuroBSDCon 2018
> > > (https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/talks-speakers/#PierrePronchery) I
> > > mentioned the SLAAC privacy extensions for IPv6 (RFC 4941). They help
> > > maintain privacy on the Internet when using IPv6, by using a random
> > > address when auto-configuring IPv6 addresses (ie with "ip6mode=autohost"
> > > set in /etc/rc.conf).
> > 
> > Given that we generally recomment to use dhcpcd nowadays, I don't think
> > we have to do anything.
> 
> He's specifically talking about temporary addresses.
> dhcpcd enables stable private addresses by default instead.

He is talking about two different things, one in the mail, one in the
patch :)

Joerg