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Well, that is unfortunate because it invalidates a lot of the benefit of the link-local address while providing "pivacy" over the local link scope... I have not encountered any equipment in the wild that does this, thankfully. The only distros I use (NixOS and VyOS) do not have this behaviour by default so this was news to me.


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