Right now I am playing a bit with IPv6. Is there any way how I can manually force Windows/Linux to generate a new host identifier instead of waiting for Windows/Linux to do it on it's on schedule through the IPv6 privacy extension.
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I have just tried to see if I could get a Linux kernel to generate new temporary addresses, and I couldn't find something that works. Switching use_tempaddr off and on on the interface makes you lose the existing addresses but it doesn't generate new ones until the next RA comes in.
My best guess at the moment is that there is no good way to make Linux do what you ask. I don't know about Windows. I don't have a test box to experiment with at the moment.
Sander Steffann
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On Windows 7, disabling and reenabling the network adapter results in a newly generated temporary IPv6 address.
netsh interface set interface name="nameofyourinterface" admin=disabled
netsh interface set interface name="nameofyourinterface" admin=enabled
Peter
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