dhclient raw socket?
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Thu Jan 18 22:57:39 UTC 2007
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Schmidt, Jolynn wrote:
> I was wonder if dhclient uses a raw socket. We found this to be the
> case for udhcpc, which causes problems in our environment. We have a
> high volume UDP broadcast network. When the raw socket is opened and a
> port is not specified, the amount of UDP traffic on our network over
> whelms udhcpc and it can not get its lease. I wanted to move to
> dhclient but this will require a lot of work to configure and I wanted
> to know up front if we would run in to the same problem. Does anyone
> know?
What OS?
On FreeBSD for example the client uses BPF, and installs a filter so
only DHCP packets arrive.
Most other OS have a similar but different mechanism.
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Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
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