On 11/17/2011 01:15 PM, James Knott wrote:
The random address will change, though I don't know when, other than rebooting does it. However, why do they insist on calling it "private", when it's not. It might be called a "privacy" address, as it makes it more difficult to trace, but it's still a public address that can be reached from the public internet. A private address is one that exists only on the local lan, such as the RFC1918 IPv4 addresses. The link local IPv6 addresses can serve the same function, as can other limited scope IPv6 addresses.
I agree about the "private" thing, but don't make anything of it. The fellow writing the note knows the difference. Apparently OSX Lion will change it's "privacy" address once per day, and keep stale ones around for a while. Maybe this is to handle those really long round-trip packet time routes? :-) As an aside, I once worked on a project that had round-trip packet times measured in hours. We used UDP and hoped for the best. Yes, SuSE was there... Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org