[138108] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Johnson)
Mon Feb 28 09:56:40 2011
From: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:53:04 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4D6BB5C7.8050009@utc.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-kell@utc.edu]
>Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:49 AM
>To: Dobbins, Roland
>Cc: nanog group
>Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
>
>On 2/28/2011 8:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>> On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
>>> Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the ti=
me
>is a potentially a serious security/safety issue.
>> We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to
>periodically change them, do we not?
>
>Not globally, no.
>
>Jeff
>
Can someone explain what exactly the security threat is?
If you are going to say that knowing the MAC address of the end device allo=
ws the "bad guy" to know what type of equipment you have and as such to att=
empt known compromises for said equipment, then please just don't reply. :)
- Brian
