FWIW ISC DHCPd listens on raw sockets. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
Oh, horrors, part of my infrastructure needs raw socket data?
We should ban that, for security. Who needs those pesky switches anyways?
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 6, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:38:32AM -0800, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote a message of 68 lines which said:
If you're on local subnet, why not pull the MAC address out of the received packet?
Because it requires access to raw sockets, which should not be necessary for DHCP?
-- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531 MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net