Patent ID: 8516141

Claim:
A system that facilitates enhancing security for a computer device utilizing an IPv6 network connection, comprising: a computer device, the computer device having a software module, which runs on an operating system of the computer device, and wherein the software module performs the following steps: capturing outgoing IPv6 packets before the outgoing IPv6 packets are sent over the IPv6 network connection, the outgoing IPv6 packets having a stateless autoconfiguration IPv6 address, which is configured at least partially based on a computer device identifier assigned to the computer device; modifying the stateless autoconfiguration IPv6 address associated with the computer device identifier to generate a modified IPv6 address, wherein the modified IPv6 address does not include the computer device identifier of the computer device; and returning the outgoing IPv6 packet with the modified IPv6 address to a network layer of the Internet Protocol of the computer device.