IP assignment and authenticated port

[Scott Armitage]

> On 3 Feb 2015, at 09:08, Sarah Thomas <sarah040.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
>   By saying client  should'nt be able to send DHCP request, do you mean the broadcast message from the client or any other message?
> 
> Because I see the below in code (where dhcp broadcast message can be used for station detection)
> 
> /* setup dhcp listen socket for sta detection */
>     if ((drv->dhcp_sock = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP)) < 0) {
>         perror("socket call failed for dhcp");
>         return -1;
>     }
> 
>     if (eloop_register_read_sock(drv->dhcp_sock, handle_dhcp, drv->ctx,
>                      NULL)) {
>         printf("Could not register read socket\n");
>         return -1;
>     }
> 


Where about in the source is this?  Without read the source to see what it is doing I don?t know what this is for.  However, given the comment ?for sta detection? this could simply be a way of detecting a client then triggering sending an eapol start.



Scott