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Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Feb 27 10:22:12 2011

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:22:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <A73628F8-9D2A-42DB-940D-B51D680EC95F@ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Leigh Porter wrote:

> Does anybody have anything neat to keep logs of what host gets what ipv6 
> address in an SLAAC environment?

You'd have to correlate ND information in the router to some kind of 
record of who has what MAC address at any given time. With SLAAC the host 
doesn't "get" an IPv6 address, it "takes" one.

> This is often required for legislation compliance. DHCP does this well.

Which is one of the reasons why some of us want DHCPv6 support in hosts.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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