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by eh78ssxv2f 2253 days ago
> so that basically your client gets to pick the second 1/2 of your address now. And the nice thing is, most major platforms will actually run multiple addresses in parallel, allowing new connections to use a new address while old connections keep using the old one.

This is really interesting and I was not aware of this. Are there any links where I can read about this more? I tried searching around, but did not find anything.

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Here's Wikipedia [1] and the RFC [2].

As noted, Mac OS, Windows and Linux already implement this.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Temporary_address...

[2]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941