[157741] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Nov 6 08:50:52 2012
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:49:29 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <ABEB68A0-89DD-470A-B99E-C9E8C2344C64@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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?