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Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Feb 28 10:40:40 2011

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:39:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <A4096E83-04BE-4AA9-A1EE-41A293E17573@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

> Having a MAC address as a permanent identifier is a very different proble=
m from having that MAC address go into a layer 3 protocol field.


Given the plethora of identifiable information already frothing around in o=
ur data wakes, I'm unsure this is as big a deal as it might initially seem,=
 especially given the existence of VPNs and proxy servers.

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