FWIW ISC DHCPd listens on raw sockets. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:12 AM, George Herbert <george.herb...@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 <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:38:32AM -0800, >> Owen DeLong <o...@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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