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Re: HEAD UP: dhcpcd-6.0.0 imported



On 21/06/2013 22:39, John Nemeth wrote:
On Jun 21,  8:55pm, Roy Marples wrote:
} * a DUID is now generated in /etc/dhcpcd.duid and this is used as a
}     client ID for DHCPv4 and DHCPv6
}     This does mean that you may get new DHCPv4 addresses

Why are you doing a DUID for DHCPv4? That does not make any sense
and violates POLA/POLS.

See RFC4361.
It's especially relevant for dhcpcd as it's the first dual stack DHCP client.

This is controllable, by you, the user, in dhcpcd.conf(5)

Roy


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