Persistent DUID (DHCP Unique Identifier) for Server
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Fri Nov 25 09:07:31 UTC 2011
Ted Lemon wrote:
>>Thus effectively making it unusable?
>No, it serves to identify the client to the DHCP server. That's
>very useful. When you say "makes it unusable," you must mean
>unusable for something other than that.
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".
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