On 1/5/20 00:23, David Miller wrote:
From: Fernando Gont <fg...@si6networks.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:41:40 -0300
Implement the upcoming rev of RFC4941 (IPv6 temporary addresses):
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis-09
* Reduces the default Valid Lifetime to 2 days
The number of extra addresses employed when Valid Lifetime was
7 days exacerbated the stress caused on network
elements/devices. Additionally, the motivation for temporary
addresses is indeed privacy and reduced exposure. With a
default Valid Lifetime of 7 days, an address that becomes
revealed by active communication is reachable and exposed for
one whole week. The only use case for a Valid Lifetime of 7
days could be some application that is expecting to have long
lived connections. But if you want to have a long lived
connections, you shouldn't be using a temporary address in the
first place. Additionally, in the era of mobile devices, general
applications should nevertheless be prepared and robust to
address changes (e.g. nodes swap wifi <-> 4G, etc.)
* Employs different IIDs for different prefixes
To avoid network activity correlation among addresses configured
for different prefixes
* Uses a simpler algorithm for IID generation
No need to store "history" anywhere
Signed-off-by: Fernando Gont <fg...@si6networks.com>
Please respin this patch as it no longer applies cleanly. It should
be easy, it's just because of the ReST conversion of ip-sysctl.txt
Just did, as [PATCH v3 net-next]. No code changes. Just rebased the
patch on origin/master.
Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com
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