Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > you want some level of privacy protection and therefore a fully dynamic > > temporary DHCP-assigned IPv6 address > > This turns out to be a chimera. Such addresses don't really provide any real > privacy - it turns out to be easy to track people through their access > patterns, etc. It _can_ be used in in a privacy-protecting fashion, when used properly (potentially with other than a web browser). If one is using one single web browser for *everything*; with cookies, active content, flash and all other crap enabled, then an occasional change in the outside address of your DSL router is not going to make much of a difference, of course. The map that tools/plugins like these draw after a few mouseclicks in a fully-featured FireFox are impressive (or depressing, depending on how you feel about privacy): http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/ http://www.ghostery.com/ -Martin