Re: we should enable RFC7217 by default

Olivier Cochard-Labbé <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 1:05 AM Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> What do you think?
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In a server environment, administrators typically assign static IPv6
addresses manually and do not use the EUI-64 method.
Switching to RFC 7217 should impact mainly desktops and laptops (the main
beneficiaries of this privacy feature).
While some cloud setups use SLAAC, a major release (16.0) is the
appropriate time for such a change to ensure we follow modern security
standards by default.
I support this change.

Olivier
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