Monitoring IPv6-MAC mappings
Phil Pennock
ipv6-ops+phil at spodhuis.org
Wed Apr 3 19:23:16 CEST 2013
On 2013-04-03 at 16:58 +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> Originally I was extracting the MAC address from the ClientID,
> but I found that many devices don't use the MAC address of the relevant
> interface when constructing the ClientID (they seem to use the first MAC
> address on the device, irrespective of which interface they connect over)
Isn't that to facilitate laptops switching from wired to wireless and
back? A consistent Client ID, in the hopes of getting the same IP on
both mediums/media, where the two networks are bridged.
-Phil
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