Re: DHCPv6 and MAC addresses

2012-11-14 Thread Ray Soucy
Well I guess someone is already working on it, +1 Since this is a relay-only message, though. I think it would be better as a sub-option of RFC 6422 with a requirement that relay-agents drop the option if the client tries to source it. But, I guess it's splitting hairs. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012

Re: DHCPv6 and MAC addresses

2012-11-14 Thread Tim Chown
What about http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-client-link-layer-addr-opt-03 ? -- Tim On 14 Nov 2012, at 17:46, Ray Soucy wrote: > Saw yet another attempt at a solution pop up to try and deal with the > lack of a MAC address in DHCPv6 messages. > > I've been giving this some tho

DHCPv6 and MAC addresses

2012-11-14 Thread Ray Soucy
Saw yet another attempt at a solution pop up to try and deal with the lack of a MAC address in DHCPv6 messages. I've been giving this some thought about how this should be best accomplished without requiring that host implementations of DHCPv6 be modified. Taking advantage of the relay-agent seems