Re: [DNA-BOF] Potential Workplan for comment

[Greg Daley <greg.daley@eng.monash.edu.au>]

Hi Alper,

Alper Yegin wrote:
>>>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.

This is the issue I'm referring to.

Not very common was used in terms of the
number of Ethernet NICs in the market :)

I do believe it to be a serious issue we can't ignore.

Greg