dhcpy6d - a MAC address aware DHCPv6 server

Wed Nov 14 17:47:28 UTC 2012

FWIW ISC DHCPd listens on raw sockets.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, George Herbert
<george.herbert at 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 at nic.fr> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:38:32AM -0800,
>> Owen DeLong <owen at 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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