Re: Preventing DHCP from allocating IPs

[Tony Meman <none () superig com br>]

No, u can sniff switched networks using poisoning the arp table. Its 
pretty easy to do it
usually. Check out ethercap, it uses this techniq.

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none

jon kintner wrote:

> I don't know if it's impossibe, but isn't sniffing traffic on a switched
> network more difficult?
>
> -jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Meman" <none () superig com br>
> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Preventing DHCP from allocating IPs
>
>
>  
>
> > Someone could just sniff the traffic, collect some valid MAC addresses
> > and use one of
> > them when some box is down. MAC spoofing is trivial.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > none
> >
> > Hasnain Atique wrote:
> >
> >    
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>