Persistent DUID (DHCP Unique Identifier) for Server

Ted Lemon Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Fri Nov 25 17:41:43 UTC 2011


On Nov 25, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
I think what was meant is that hardly any devices these days truly fit the description of having an immutable interface hardware address. If applied to the letter, the restriction would preclude the use of DUID-LL for virtually all devices - thus "effectively making it unusable".

Sure, the idea was that you'd design your device specifically to do DUID-LL.   So it's useful for that case, but not in a general-purpose computer that doesn't have a hardwired network interface.

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