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On Sat, 12 May 2007 09:00:34 -0400 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 May 2007, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> > Does it matter that the DUID-LLT isn't stored when starting from a |
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> > Live-CD? I don't see why there is the need for a use flag for this |
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> > functionality, when it doesn't imply a new dependency. |
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> the concern was to have a way to provide "nice" clients for use on |
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> volatile systems (netboot/livecd/etc...) |
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> everytime you'd boot up such a system and do dhcp, you'd create a new |
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> unique id and the server would store it ... this isnt very nice to |
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> the server admin who now has a set of unique ids that will never be |
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> utilized again but by default would maintain all of them |
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> -mike |
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Not only that, but boot of the same computer using a CD 200 times and |
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you use up 200 leases. Nice DOS attack I'd like to avoid really :) |
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I've thought long and hard about it and I think a compile time option |
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is best here. You can still disable the usage of DUID by null arg to |
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the -I option, but many users launch dhcpcd by hand on the live cds. |
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Thanks |
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Roy |
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