From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: dhcp client packet sniffing...
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:01:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100408.040141.66855166.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408105951.GA16868@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 06:59:51 -0400
> Dave, sorry to be late to the discussion, but can you refesh us on
> why dhcp has to sniff every packet?
It wants to see DHCP packets from the server.
And it can't use ipv4 RAW sockets due to some limitations wrt. getting
at the link layer headers when using that interfaces.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-08 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 10:50 dhcp client packet sniffing David Miller
2010-04-08 10:59 ` Neil Horman
2010-04-08 11:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-04-08 11:47 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 12:11 ` David Miller
2010-04-08 12:30 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 12:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-08 13:12 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 13:23 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-08 14:27 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 14:37 ` Maxime Bizon
2010-04-08 15:07 ` Herbert Xu
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