[ipxe-devel] Hypothetical DHCPv6 Questions/issues

[Michael Brown]

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.

(Redirecting to ipxe-devel since the gPXE list seems to have become 
moderated.)

Michael