Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Sun Nov 20 15:07:50 UTC 2011


On 11/20/2011 03:51 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2011, at 6:07 AM, "Rudy Zijlstra"<rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org>  wrote:
>> 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.
> DOCSIS devices get compliance testing, and AFAIK the mac address is not used as a key, but just as a hint, so they've avoided the pitfalls DUID was meant to prevent.
>
>
It is what is used to identify the unit, so it can be provisioned with 
the correct service level. A unit that does not supply the MAC address 
does not pass compliance testing.



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