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Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
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>> Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue.
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> We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to periodically change them, do we not?
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MAC addresses don't generally leave the local broadcast domain.
Having a MAC address as a permanent identifier is a very different problem from having that
MAC address go into a layer 3 protocol field.
Owen
- References:
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: rps at maine.edu (Ray Soucy)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: joelja at bogus.com (Joel Jaeggli)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: swmike at swm.pp.se (Mikael Abrahamsson)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: joelja at bogus.com (Joel Jaeggli)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com (Leigh Porter)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: swmike at swm.pp.se (Mikael Abrahamsson)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: jg at freedesktop.org (Jim Gettys)
- Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
- From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)