Re: Windows dynamic ARP

[John Mason Jr <john.mason.jr () cox net>]

Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Darden, Patrick S. wrote:
>
>   
> > Some possibilities you might have already thought of for doing this in a
> > roundabout fashion:
> >
> > 1.  If you are using advanced switches, you can implement this on them.  
> > Allow only certain MACs to connect to your network. 2.  If your switches
> >     
>
> I can MAC-lock switch ports, however what I'm looking for is a host-level 
> backup to MAC locking the network layer, so that if there's a network 
> compromise, or a hub is introduced in to the physical topology the game is 
> not immediately lost.
>
>   
> > don't have the ability to do #1, perhaps your switches, core switches,
> > or core router can filter out ARP requests/replies. 3.  You can turn off
> >     
>
> ARP won't cross a router- I'm specifically trying to shore up the host OS 
> so that the host/network seperation still happens, but there's a layer of 
> protection if the network layer or administrator is compromised.
>
>   
> > ARP response in windows (not quite what you wanted, I think)
> > http://www.windowsreference.com/networking/enabledisable-response-to-arp-request-without-unicase-source-ethernet-address/
> >
> >     
>
> Hmm, that looks mostly like it's a unicast/multi-and-broadcast switch- 
> maybe there's someone who's done enough firewall code who can point me to 
> a good shim location?  The built-in firewall seems to be IP layer only.
>
> I'm going to have a good play with /32ing the subnet mask and adding a 
> routing table entry for each host, but I really think that's going to end 
> up being sub-optimal- as is adding a null static entry for every IP 
> address I don't want to communicate with in the subnet (I'm betting the 
> ARP table is a linear search in most network stacks.)
>
> Paul
>   
How about this:

<http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-vista/set-gratuitous-arp-requests-in-windows-server-2008-and-windows-vista/>



John

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