Re: Two NSE questions

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hi Ron,

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Ron<ron () skullsecurity net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to implement a script to send/receive DHCP Inform requests. And,
> it almost works, except for two problems that I don't know how to resolve.
>
> I know these can both be fixed using raw sockets, but I'd really like to
> avoid that.
>
> First, I need to set my source port to UDP/68 for these transactions. I
> don't see any way to do that using the connect() function. I realize that
> UDP/68 is reserved so r00t is required, but -sU requires root anyways.

I had believed that manually making a packet for a raw socket was the
only way to do this? If it is possible in the nsock library then David
or I can change it.

> Second, I need to know the MAC address of the interface that I'm listening
> on. Is there (or can there be) any way to do that from NSE? Ideally, it'd be
> nice if socket:get_info() returned it, but I don't know what would be
> involved.

I'm not sure on this either.

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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