[gPXE] Hypothetical DHCPv6 Questions/issues

[Jarrod Johnson]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>wrote:

> On Saturday 17 Jul 2010 13:21:07 Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> > My proposal to I've submitted to the IETF, MS, and Intel is to have x86
> > standardize on an as-yet unapproved DUID type, that uses 'the' UUID
> already
> > ubiquitous in x86 firmware (dmidecode|grep UUID: will show it in linux
> and
> > wmic csproduct will show it in Windows (the latter is a tad byteswapped
> in
> > output)).  DHCPv6 aims for a host identifier rather than an interface
> > identifier, and I think this is the "cheapest", most approriate approach
> in
> > x86 space.
>
> Is this the same UUID that we currently send within DHCPv4 option 97 (i.e.
> the
> UUID as extracted from the SMBIOS "system information" structure)?
>
> If so, then it's already accessible via &uuid_setting, so would be easy to
> support.
>
> Michael
>
It would be.
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