28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
9:01 a.m.
On 2011-02-28, at 08:44, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Jim Gettys wrote:
Again, having a permanently known identifier being broadcast all the time is a potentially a serious security/safety issue.
We already have this with MAC addresses, unless folks bother to periodically change them, do we not?
Only between hosts that are in the same layer-2 broadcast domain. By embedding the MAC into the layer-3 address, the concern is that the information becomes accessible Internet-wide. Joe