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Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:19:00 +0100
On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 09:14:54AM +0100, Henri Wahl <h.wahl () ifw-dresden de> wrote a message of 155 lines which said:
- identifies clients by MAC address, DUID or hostname
Excellent, identification by MAC address was often requested. Thanks for this software.
like other people we had the problem that existing DHCPv6 servers do not evaluate the MAC address of clients, following RFC 3315.
I'm not convinced that it is RFC's fault. The only thing I find in RFC 3315 is (section 9) "DHCP servers use DUIDs to identify clients for the selection of configuration parameters and in the association of IAs with clients." I read it as "a compliant DHCPv6 server MUST recognize DUID and identify clients this way" which does not logically imply that it cannot identify clients by other means as well.
Current thread:
- dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Henri Wahl (Nov 05)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server bmanning (Nov 05)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Stephane Bortzmeyer (Nov 06)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Owen DeLong (Nov 06)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Stephane Bortzmeyer (Nov 06)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server George Herbert (Nov 06)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Ray Soucy (Nov 14)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Stephane Bortzmeyer (Nov 06)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server bmanning (Nov 06)
- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Henri Wahl (Nov 06)
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- Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server Henri Wahl (Nov 13)