Comment by carlsborg
6 years ago
Now you are nitpicking. Your new link says exactly this “ This broadcasts the machine ID (hashed with a known fixed salt) over the LAN as the unique client identifier part of the DHCP protocol. (Other DHCP clients tend to use MAC addresses for this.) It also broadcasts the machine ID locally on each link as part of Ethernet LLDP, if enabled.”
It is far from nitpicking to point out the gross inaccuracy of conflating one particular software with an entire operating system. systemd-networkd is not Debian.
Nobody is conflating these two things, you are interpreting it that way.