[138102] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gettys)
Mon Feb 28 08:59:06 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:58:34 -0500
From: Jim Gettys <jg@freedesktop.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <35826B01-F1D5-48CF-809E-FEC7329D1231@arbor.net>
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On 02/28/2011 08:44 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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And we certainly discussed randomising MAC addresses, for exactly the
reasons stated.
- Jim