Subject: Re: dhcpd(8) & Sockets API
To: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 01/07/2002 19:08:44
RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org> writes:
> Dennis's analysis seems dead-on to me.  The fix would be to have some
> kind of BSD Sockets API extension that could be used to identify the
> arriving interface for DHCP REQUEST packets.  Ideally, such an 
> extension would be coordinated with the other *BSD kernel folks,
> so it could be more widely implemented than just NetBSD.

FYI, such coordination is what the bsd-api* lists are for, not that
anyone is using them much.

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