[157900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Wed Nov 14 12:49:10 2012
In-Reply-To: <12EF9311-B9FF-4E86-BB0E-E178C357FA89@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:47:28 -0500
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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?
>>
>>
>
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