Re: DHCP testing

Steven Nusser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Frederic Breitwieser
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Not exactly a m0n0wall question, but you folks may have a good
> > recommendation.
> >
> > I'm looking for a piece of freeware that would simulate a DHCP request from
> > my m0n0wall, so I can look at the result and verify that the PXE server I
> > specified is actually being passed.
> >
>
> Why not actually use m0n0wall?  I think for that I'd setup a m0n0wall
> VM in VMware, and check the DHCP request and response in Wireshark on
> the host system.
>
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Also, if you have access to a managed switch, you could set up a
monitored port that receives all traffic from all ports.  You could
then plug a computer running Wireshark into this port.
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