Reply to post: Re: Throw caution to the wind and it will fall upon someone else

Time to dump dual-stack networks and get on the IPv6 train – with LW4o6

eldakka

Re: Throw caution to the wind and it will fall upon someone else

> Use ephemeral IPs with your IPv6, Windows does so by default and you can set it up in your other OSs too.

That sounds like more work than setting up a NAT.

With NAT, just configure router. With ephemeral IPs, set up each computer to use them, then after each Windows update when MS resets your preferences back to want it wants (i.e. greater track-ability) you have to go through all of them and check the config.

One place to configure (router for NAT) vs Np places to configure for ephemeral IPv6 (where N=number of your computing devices - computers, appliances, IoT (/shudder), smartphones, tablets, games consoles and p=number of patch cycles experienced).

Of course, if ephemeral can be set up via DHCP then that'd ease the task a lot.

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