host-identifier with IPv6

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 4 09:03:42 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 01:53 -0700, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
> > If you take a look at the cablelabs DHCP specification, you will find
> > that the IPv6 part also contains the device MAC address in the list.
> >
> > See CL-SP-CAN-DHCP-REG-I02-080306 which is on the cablelabs website.
> 
> Actually, no, there are a number of identifiers there including the  
> cable modem serial number, but the Mac address is not one of the  
> identifiers on the list for DHCPv6.

Page 17, suboption 36. 

Text says: 6 octet MAC address, Description: CL_OPTION_DEVICE_ID
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Cheers,


Rudy




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