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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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This is a good argument for not making it the default, but it would be nice to have it as a command line switch.

Well, yss, but SSH is hardly ever anonymous and this could simply be a cli option.

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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