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Re: MAC replies


From: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi () mithrandi za net>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:57:28 +0200

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 15:19:56 -0700, Brett Campbell wrote:
ARP is not a very reliable source of authenticity.  Things like tarpits
and proxy-arp make this approach unfeasible.  And some IDS will be 
alarmed by a flood of 200+ ARP requests in < 1s.

It still seems like an ARP ping "method" would be a useful feature; it
doesn't have to be the default.
-- 
mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar

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