Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server

[George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>]

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?