On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:14:52PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > *Really*? It bakes the endpoint MAC into the IP? Well, that's miserably > > poor architecture design. > > > > It can and it is a common default. It is not required. > > It's actually rather elegant architecture design for the goals it was > implemented to accomplish.
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iesg-serno-privacy-00> warned against using hardware serial numbers in End-to-End protocols. As Privacy Extensions and DAD actually work great in my environments I will stay with that option. Servers will get static IP addresses. I don't see a need for embedding serial numbers into IP addresses. gruss, Hannes
