DHCP Support on L2 Switch
Tim Peiffer
peiffer at umn.edu
Wed May 16 15:55:48 UTC 2007
No, the internal code that was referenced is extremely UMN centric.
DHCP Option-82 is portable, and with a little wrapper code, you can
develop the concept of session data fairly easily. I am currently
looking at Option-82 as a means of shutting down some of the polling
that I am doing.
Regards,
Tim
Ricardo Stella wrote:
> Tim Peiffer wrote:
>
>> We run an internal address tracking method that is accurate to within 2
>> minutes of traffic inception on our net. We do this by scraping arp
>> tables on the routers, mac-address forwarding tables on switches, and
>> inferring sessions of 'time to the IP to the MAC to the port to the
>> jack/circuit'. We do this at the scale of approximately 75,000 access
>> ports. We have searched for years for commercial products to do what we
>> do - none were available that could scale or met our requirements. DHCP
>> Option-82 in an enforced environment brings all of the above attributes
>> together (date/time, IP, MAC, circuit) and is accurate to within seconds
>> of when the IP traffic comes on the wire.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Is there any of these codes publicly available ? TIA...
>
>
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