Re: [DNA-BOF] Potential Workplan for comment

[Alper Yegin <alper@docomolabs-usa.com>]

>> Do you mean the router's IP address uniqueness?  The solution to that is
>> to also check the router's MAC address, no?
> 
> The issue is with non-global scope addresses,
> particularly link-local addresses.
> Unfortunately, this is not possible since the
> Link-Local addresses are often derived from
> MAC addresses in IPv6.
> 
> The main issue is hardware NICs on a single device
> which share the same MAC address across several
> interfaces.   While this is not a very common
> scenario, it has happened in the past, ans may

There exists at least one implementation that sets the interface (mac)
addresses of the node to the same value.

Alper

> also be when changing virtual-link instances
> such as moving between VLANs connected to a one-arm
> router.
> 
> If another globally unique identifier is available
> (for example a global prefix) this can be used to
> disambiguate things.
> 
> If the issue is still cloudy and DHC is available,
> I am sure that it will be used.
> 
> Greg
> 
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