Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Sat Nov 19 19:51:11 UTC 2011



--On 19 November 2011 19:38:57 +0000 Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon at nominum.com> 
wrote:

> We went with a DUID instead of a hardware address because hardware
> addresses aren't unique, and this has been a problem in the past even
> within a single subnet.   It would be nice if the MAC address could be
> assumed to be unique, but it can't.

Won't non-unique MAC addresses on a single subnet present you with
larger problems than failure to get IP addresses?

-- 
Alex Bligh



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