N/T

While you can't be extradited from NZ to US for copyright infringement, you can for "sodomy"

Ultimately, all that really 'takes care of' is the contents of some text file called /etc/sysconfig/network

Bonus points for getting trolled by a .sig line.

Whoosh is for jokes that aren't noticed by respondents. It's not a way to tell people you're merely trolling and acting more ignorant that you are in reality.

And I hope not.

No, working with Theodore Tso is hard to get right.

Now, check the addressing schemes for IPv6. You'll find out that one of the mechanisms to create an IPv6 address, extender EUI-64, is _precisely_ building it from a MAC address, which indeed is fully readable in the reslting IPv6 address.

The scope for these addresses is local, so they won't be routed off-net. Imagine a routing table with an IPv6 route for every single MAC address.

Heaven forbid the superuser have any say in what's going on.

That's not really being funny, it's just watering down the intelligence of the argument and surmising what an ignorant person would say. Just stick with "Your fly is down. Ha, made you look!" please.