On 2020-01-31 08:01 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 31/01/2020 à 13:01, James Knott a écrit :
It's really annoying when they do something like that with no way back. At least in Windows there's a registry setting you can change and there used to be a config line in SuSE, IIRC.
if my memory is good, it's now the rule for android, for privacy reason. A smartphone is aimed to move.
For a laptop, it's not that sure, many have them only for the fact they are small, and never move
I have a Google Pixel 2, with Android 10 and the latest update, as of a few days ago. It still uses MAC based addresses. The MAC based address is used only when you want to run a server or have other access to a device. For that, you'd put the MAC based address in the DNS. Outgoing connections, such as you'd use in a coffee shop etc., use a privacy address, which is based on a random number. If the computer is left running long enough, it will get a new privacy address every day, with those more than 7 days old discarded. Also, another thing I've noticed is that the link local, global unique and unique local addresses all have different suffixes, whereas previously they were all the same. As I mentioned, there is also a /128 address, which is pretty much useless on a computer, though often used on routers. For example I get a /56 prefix from my ISP. My WAN address is a /128, which has no relationship with my prefix. It's not even used for routing. It's just a public address to use to access the firewall. Routing is done over link local addresses. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org