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From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org>
Subject: Re: MAC Address
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:08:47 -0500 (EST)

> I'm sure you could work it out, but i'm curious as why you would want
> to do this? A MAC address provides a necessary function in it's sequences
> of set prefixes and it's sequence of unique suffixes.

well, i'd want to do it so that my mac address doesn't leak when using
implementations of ipv6 -- afaict, "privacy-considering" address
allocation hasn't been implemented widely (perhaps because it's still
in draft form?).


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