Re: UDP payload for DHCP

[jfink <jay.fink () gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:18:35PM -0600, Ron wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:05:02 -0700 David Fifield
> > Okay. I'd rather not request an address if that's possible. What
> > about a DCHPINFORM for the scanner's current address? Dynamic
> > payloads are not supported in the current payload architecture, but
> > it's something we have in mind with Jay Fink's work on a payload data
> > file.

> Agreed @ not requesting an address. 
>
> I discovered while writing the dhcp-discover.nse script that a lot of dhcp servers don't respond to 'inform' 
> requests. We can still do it, and it'll work in some cases, but not others. We can do both dhcpinfom and request an 
> invalid address, one or the other *might* give a response (no guarantee on either, though). 

That is okay I think, the payloads we use now do not always evoke a
response everytime.
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