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Re: [dhcwg] DUID+IAID

"A. Gregory Rabil" <greg.rabil@jagornet.com> Fri, 30 March 2012 14:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] DUID+IAID
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> wrote:

> > I raise here a silly but real concern: the common assumption
> > a MAC address is unique to a physical interface is *false*:
>
> Right, that's why we don't want to use it as an identifier.
>

Okay, so given that the MAC address is not unique, then in order to
"provision" devices (aka static binding, reservation, or manual dhcp), the
administrator must know both the DUID and the MAC of the device to be
provisioned, correct?

Greg

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