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RE: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
From: Brian Johnson <bjohnson () drtel com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:53:04 +0000
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-kell () utc edu] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:49 AM To: Dobbins, Roland Cc: nanog group Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 On 2/28/2011 8:44 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 timeis a potentially a serious security/safety issue.We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother toperiodically change them, do we not? Not globally, no. Jeff
Can someone explain what exactly the security threat is? If you are going to say that knowing the MAC address of the end device allows the "bad guy" to know what type of equipment you have and as such to attempt known compromises for said equipment, then please just don't reply. :) - Brian
Current thread:
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6, (continued)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Mikael Abrahamsson (Feb 27)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Dobbins, Roland (Feb 27)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Randy Bush (Feb 27)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Steven Bellovin (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Jim Gettys (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Dobbins, Roland (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Jim Gettys (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Joe Abley (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Dobbins, Roland (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Jeff Kell (Feb 28)
- RE: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Brian Johnson (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Joe Abley (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Leigh Porter (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Mark Newton (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Dobbins, Roland (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Joel Jaeggli (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Joel Jaeggli (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6 Dobbins, Roland (Feb 28)