[138027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Sun Feb 27 14:08:25 2011
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:07:55 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1102271620370.11974@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 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.
So how does DHCP prevent a host from just taking or hijacking an IP
address?
Antonio Querubin
e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
