There is also draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-client-link-layer-addr-opt-04
which handles the case for DHCPv6 clients.  That also requires no
changes to clients--only the DHCPv6 Relay Agent.

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:56:03PM +0000, Rajiv Asati (rajiva) wrote:
> Hi Maglione, 
> 
> Thanks for your review and a good question.
> 
> draft-ietf-dhc-addr-registration introduces a new IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
> option and a
>    new DHCPv6 option to propagate the address registration information
> from the hosts to the network.  It requires the changes on the host.
> 
> 
> 
> draft-asati-dhc-ipv6-autoconfig-address-tracking, on the other hand,
> requires no changes to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery and no changes to the
> hosts. It introduces changes in DHCPv6 specific to the last hop router and
> the DHCP server, thereby keeping the changes within the network (and DHCP
> server).
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Rajiv
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maglione Roberta <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, February 1, 2013 3:26 AM
> To: Rajiv Asati <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Philipp Kern <[email protected]>,
> Brian Hamacher <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: MAC Address Tracking via DHCP6
> 
> >Hello Rajiv,
> > is there any relation between your draft and
> >draft-ietf-dhc-addr-registration-00?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Regards,
> >Roberta
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> >Rajiv Asati (rajiva)
> >Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:27 PM
> >To: Philipp Kern; Brian Hamacher
> >Cc: [email protected]
> >Subject: Re: MAC Address Tracking via DHCP6
> >
> >
> >There is a better way out to track the IPv6 addresses used by the hosts
> >(via SLAAC or static) -
> >
> >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-asati-dhc-ipv6-autoconfig-address-trackin
> >g
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Rajiv
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Philipp Kern <[email protected]>
> >Organization: The Debian Project (http://www.debian.org)
> >Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:37 AM
> >To: Brian Hamacher <[email protected]>
> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: MAC Address Tracking
> >
> >>On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 04:04:14PM -0600, Brian Hamacher wrote:
> >>> I am looking for a good way to track my users MAC Addresses.  I have a
> >>> test DHCPv6 server up and running ISC 4.1.1-P1.  When I look through my
> >>> DHCP logs as well as my leases file I do not see the client MAC Address
> >>> anywhere.  Do I need to enable an option to allow this to be logged?  I
> >>> am looking to figure out how I can track what user had what IP Address
> >>> at any given time.  The MAC Address is traditionally how I have done
> >>> this.
> >>
> >>One way would be to poll your routers' ND tables (like fetching ARP
> >>tables
> >>in IPv4). As soon as you use relaying you most certainly won't get a
> >>useable MAC address from your client, even though it might be possible in
> >>the same network segment. (The MAC address is not copied from the wire
> >>into the new relayed packet sent by the router to your server.)
> >>
> >>DHCPv6 uses the so-called client identifier extensively and not the MAC
> >>address anymore. So you cannot do any static assignment based on MAC
> >>addresses.
> >>
> >>Kind regards
> >>Philipp Kern
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