Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 20 13:13:49 UTC 2011


On 11/20/2011 01:55 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Rudy Zijlstra<rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org>  writes:
>
>> For those protesting, please keep in mind that one of the security
>> requirements in the DOCSIS spec is that the end-user can under no
>> circumstance change the MAC address. This security requirement has
>> been present since DOCSIS 1.0 spec.
> Don't these devices bridge ethernet frames from user controlled hosts?
>
Most devices we sell are routers... Still, for the bridging devices 
there is a very clear need to manage them, as the service level is 
determined in the modem. You do not want the end-user able to tamper 
with the device that controls the speed he gets.



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