diff --git a/components/network.rst b/components/network.rst
index 34b1d1c71..31e717ab7 100644
--- a/components/network.rst
+++ b/components/network.rst
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Configuration variables:
 - **enable_ipv6** (*Optional*, boolean): Enables IPv6 support. Defaults to ``false``.
 - **min_ipv6_addr_count** (*Optional*, integer): ESPHome considers the network to be connected when it has one IPv4 address and this number of IPv6 addresses. Defaults to ``0`` so as to not hang on boot with networks where IPv6 is not enabled. ``2`` is typically a reasonable value for configurations requiring IPv6.
 
+.. note::
+
+    The `lwIP <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lwip/>`_ library used for the network component currently only implements IPv6 SLAAC according to `RFC4862 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4862/>`_. The interface identifier (IID) is directly generated from the device MAC address.
+    This has various security and privacy implications decribed in `RFC7721 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7721/>`_, as this might leak outside of the smart home network and makes the device uniquely identifiable.
+    Therefore, the address generation does not comply to `RFC7217 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7217/>`_.
+
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