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by gspr 100 days ago
Interesting! Is there anywhere a discussion around their refusal to include your fix?
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rnhmjoj 100 days ago
See this, for example: https://groups.google.com/g/opensshunixdev/c/FVv_bK16ADM/m/R...

It boilds down to using a Linux-specific API, though it's really BSD that is lacking support for a standard (RFC 5014).

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lxgr 100 days ago
It would also seem to break address privacy (usually not much of a concern if you authenticate yourself via SSH anyway, but still, it leaks your Ethernet or Wi-Fi interface's MAC address in many older setups).
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gspr 99 days ago
This is a good argument for not making it the default, but it would be nice to have it as a command line switch.
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rnhmjoj 100 days ago
Well, yss, but SSH is hardly ever anonymous and this could simply be a cli option.
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lxgr 99 days ago
Not anonymous, but it's pretty unexpected for different servers with potentially different identities for each to learn your MAC address (if you're using the default EUI-64 method for SLAAC).
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