Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:15:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: camposr@MATRIX.COM.BR, imp@harmony.village.org Cc: liam@tiora.net, nicole@ispchannel.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poink attack (was Re: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT) Message-ID: <199904192215.PAA04114@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> In-Reply-To: <199904192059.OAA27640@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes: > Define vulnerable. ARP has no security in it whatsoever[*], so there > is *NO* way to effectively defend against this attack w/o keeping a > database .... Bingo. Note the close cousin of poink, the "ifconfig attack": ifconfig fxp0 <address-I-want-to-poink> And you don't even need libnet, or whatever it was called. Jim Shankland NLynx Systems, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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