> > Another good way to meet the DSL Forum's requirement would be > > to run PANA over IPv6 link-local addresses. Assuming the > > presence of an IPv6 stack on both ends, this seems to be the > > least problematic way to do all of this: you get to talk to > > the first layer 3 device upstream without any layer 2 issues > > to worry about but address provisioning hasn't happened yet > > so no difficulties there either. This wouldn't be > > ethernet-specific but it would probably be advantageous to > > correlate the MAC address that was used in the PANA exchange > > with the MAC address in subsequent DHCP exchanges. > > What you describe is certainly possible. But to me it seems more > complicated for failure mode debugging than the DHCP Auth proposals.
Can you elaborate on that? > (And remember, DSL providers already use DHCP & Option 82.) Yes, that is for "line identification". The problem at hand is "subscriber authentication". They are not quite the same thing. Alper _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
