|
|
Hi Jo,
You are right. Windows 7 (Server 2008 & Vista as well) by default randomizes ipv6 auto-configured address selection. This is in violation with section 4 of RFC 2464 that mandates that the network identifier part of the IPv6 address is derived from the 48-bit MAC address for Ethernet (and Wireless) interfaces.
It may be that Microsoft chose to do this for privacy reasons..
For most users this will not be much of a problem but for those running a server it will. There is however a solution:
netsh interface ipv6 set global randomizeidentifiers=disabled
This will switch the feature off and address selection will be based upon the EUI-64 identifier, derived from the interface’s built-in 48-bit IEEE 802 address.
Erwin |
IP Logged
|
|
Last Edited On: 2009-11-21 15:37:47 By erwin_admin1968 for the Reason |
