host-identifier with IPv6

Ted Lemon Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Wed Mar 4 02:31:07 UTC 2009


On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Eustace, Glen wrote:
> The big difference between an ISP and a corporate/educational  
> institution, as far as I can see, is we have obligations with  
> respect to the users and computers on our networks.
>
> For a large proportion of the devices on our network, we own them.   
> They are an asset and hence will be recorded, somewhere.  We have  
> license agreements that apply to computers that we own. We have  
> license agreements that are enforced by source IP address. We have  
> large numbers of communal equipment e.g. laboratories that must  
> provide a consistent known software environment for our students.   
> Basically we have to manage all the computers rather than an ISP  
> that usually just provides network access.

Okay.   So for those devices that are multi-homed, have you recorded  
all of the Mac addresses, or just one?




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