Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:37:43 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poink and freebsd Message-ID: <371bcc18.1480010513@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAIL199904192054.OAA27522@harmony.village.org> References: <199904191854.OAA02778@mozart.csl.cornell.edu> <MAIL199904192054.OAA27522@harmony.village.org>
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>Sounds like your typical "Let's claim to be someone else and confuse >everybody" DOS that has been well know since at least the late 80's, >if not before. arp has no authentication in it, so short of hard >wiring the arp cache on all your machines, I don't think there is much >that can be done about this. Even detecting that it is going on and Would not a switch that lets you hard code allowed mac addresses help in this case ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the messagehelp
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