On January 11, 2004 02:05 pm, Tarek W. wrote: > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:37, Ramin Dousti wrote: > > dhcpd takes and puts packets by netlink sockets which bypass the whole > > IP stack. So in short, you cannot filter the requests nor the response. > > > > Ramin I'll accept that .. but I have a question ... is ARP routing not related?? Are ARP queries not ethernet broadcasts on a similar level to DHCP broadcasts?? (okay .. thats mighty off topic ..but perhaps its something we can consider network related) Alistair > > <snippage> > > this is slightly off... iirc, some of the negotiation happens that way, > further negotiation does not... what I'm sure of however is that if u > don't explicitely allow dhcpd traffic server-side, negotiation does not > work client-side... which means that not all traffic if any bypasses > netfilter... don't have the time to investigate further server-side... > sorry...
