Re: dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server

[Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>]

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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