Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
spec: Note the potential for all-zero source MAC addresses
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
mcb30 committed Apr 15, 2020
1 parent 258acdd commit 6b8c27a
Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 0 deletions.
9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions spec/cx.lyx
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1492,6 +1492,15 @@ Such techniques MAY include the use of single-use or short-lived values
to avoid linkage attacks.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
Note that when the logical broadcast is implemented as a single physical
broadcast, there is no need for any device to be able to respond to the
physical broadcast or to be able to determine its origin.
Under these circumstances, the Broadcast Layer MAY use fixed and non-identifyin
g values for fields that would normally contain identifying information
(such as using an all-zero source MAC address).
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
An Observer MAY record additional relevant information provided by the Broadcast
Layer at the time of receiving the Contact Identifier, such as received
Expand Down

0 comments on commit 6b8c27a

Please sign in to comment.