Set a startup script to randomly generate a MAC address. That would
take, what, a few minutes?

Kurt

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 13:19, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm...is it though?  It's certainly not very hard, but I wouldn't say it's 
> easy enough for me to change it on a regular basis or for every site I visit.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:56 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: DHCPv6
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:16, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> With IPv6, the DHCP server *could* configure its own address via SLAAC, and
>>>> then just hand out DHCP options (like DNS servers) when asked.
>>>
>>> True, but it's all too easy to setup the first address ...
>>
>>  Oh, I'm not saying it would be a good idea to do that.  Note that
>> doesn't mean I'm saying it *wouldn't* be a good idea, either.  Myself,
>> I'm talking purely theory at this point.  I don't know enough about
>> IPv6 to start advocating any particular practice, and I expect IPv6
>> hasn't seen enough real-world usage to have really solid best
>> practices in the first place.
>>
>>  But I would be surprised if there aren't some factions which
>> advocate SLAAC for *all* hosts no matter what.
>>
>>  Then there are those who fear SLAAC because it puts an identifier
>> which could potentially follow you anywhere in the world in your IP
>> address (your NIC's MAC address).
>>
>> -- Ben
>
> It's easy enough to change your MAC address...
>
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