28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
10:27 a.m.
On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:44 AM, 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?
MAC addresses don't generally leave the local broadcast domain. Having a MAC address as a permanent identifier is a very different problem from having that MAC address go into a layer 3 protocol field. Owen