On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Michael Brown <mbr...@fensystems.co.uk>wrote:
> On Saturday 17 Jul 2010 13:21:07 Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > My proposal to I've submitted to the IETF, MS, and Intel is to have x86 > > standardize on an as-yet unapproved DUID type, that uses 'the' UUID > already > > ubiquitous in x86 firmware (dmidecode|grep UUID: will show it in linux > and > > wmic csproduct will show it in Windows (the latter is a tad byteswapped > in > > output)). DHCPv6 aims for a host identifier rather than an interface > > identifier, and I think this is the "cheapest", most approriate approach > in > > x86 space. > > Is this the same UUID that we currently send within DHCPv4 option 97 (i.e. > the > UUID as extracted from the SMBIOS "system information" structure)? > > If so, then it's already accessible via &uuid_setting, so would be easy to > support. > > Michael > It would be.
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