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Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Feb 28 10:34:07 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <35826B01-F1D5-48CF-809E-FEC7329D1231@arbor.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:27:18 -0800
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>=20
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
>=20
>> Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the =
time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue.=20
>=20
>=20
> We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to =
periodically change them, do we not?
>=20
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
