Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> > Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety 
> > issue. 
>
>
> We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to periodically change them, do we not?
MAC addresses don't generally leave the local broadcast domain.

Having a MAC address as a permanent identifier is a very different problem from having that
MAC address go into a layer 3 protocol field.

Owen