https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495496
--- Comment #4 from Douglas Silva <doug...@protonmail.ch> ---
(In reply to Odin Vex from comment #3)
> (In reply to Douglas Silva from comment #2)
> > In other words, the option you're changing in the editor refers to RFC 4941
> > (Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6), which
> > creates temporary addresses to be used for outgoing connections.
> >
> > `addr-gen-mode` defines how the interface identifier of your public IPv6
> > addresses is generated — it doesn't apply to the "privacy addresses".
> > Setting it to `stable-privacy` makes it create stable IIDs that don't expose
> > your real hardware MAC address, while `eui64` creates IIDs based on your
> > MAC.
>
> Setting `privacy` to *disabled* doesn't get me a non-private address, that's
> the problem. Disabled means disabled, not 'stable-privacy'. Only setting
> `addr-gen-mode` to 0 and restarting NetworkManager *again* will get me a
> real, non-private address ('eui64').
As far as I know, `stable-privacy` gives you a public stable address, which
should not change. Its name can be misleading.
However, if you have a dynamic GUA address (when your ISP refuses to give you a
static prefix), then the address generated with `stable-privacy` will change
every time the ISP updates your prefix; in such cases, you have to use EUI64.
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