Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

Ted Lemon Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Sun Nov 20 14:51:20 UTC 2011


On Nov 20, 2011, at 6:07 AM, "Rudy Zijlstra" <rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org> wrote:
> For those protesting, please keep in mind that one of the security requirements in the DOCSIS spec is that the end-user can under no circumstance change the MAC address. This security requirement has been present since DOCSIS 1.0 spec.

DOCSIS devices get compliance testing, and AFAIK the mac address is not used as a key, but just as a hint, so they've avoided the pitfalls DUID was meant to prevent.




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