netdev - Re: dhcp client packet sniffing...

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Message-ID: <20100408150732.GA25950@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:07:32 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dhcp client packet sniffing...

On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Maxime Bizon wrote:
>
> You can't close the socket while bound since you can receive DHCPINFORM
> anytime.

Right, as long as you don't use an AF_PACKET socket most of the
time it should be fine.

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