[157748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Tue Nov 6 11:13:24 2012
In-Reply-To: <20121106134929.GA17574@nic.fr>
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 08:12:49 -0800
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
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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?
>
>
