[143254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannes Frederic Sowa)
Thu Aug 4 08:02:04 2011
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:00:56 +0200
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <78D5861B-A854-44C8-ABD1-62B783885733@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:14:52PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > *Really*? It bakes the endpoint MAC into the IP? Well, that's miserably
> > poor architecture design.
> >
>
> It can and it is a common default. It is not required.
>
> It's actually rather elegant architecture design for the goals it was
> implemented to accomplish.
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iesg-serno-privacy-00> warned against using
hardware serial numbers in End-to-End protocols. As Privacy Extensions and DAD
actually work great in my environments I will stay with that option. Servers
will get static IP addresses. I don't see a need for embedding serial numbers
into IP addresses.
gruss,
Hannes
