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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert)
Cc:        Harry_M_Leitzell@cmu.edu, fred@fredbox.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   DHCP (was Re: poink attack (was Re: ARP problem in Windows9X/NT))
Message-ID:  <199904201515.LAA09694@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <14108.38235.254919.924353@trooper.velocet.ca> from David Gilbert at "Apr 20, 99 10:55:23 am"

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David Gilbert wrote,
> Not this discussion 'should' be about what 'should' be, but wouldn't
> it make sense to have the DHCP server be the 'athority' by which
> hardware addresses are resolved?  I suppose there's little security
> built into that protocol, too.  We recently went to implement it for a 
> customer and were somewhat taken aback by what could happen if someone 
> managed to just 'connect' a laptop to the network who wasn't supposed
> to.

OK, I'll bite.

What happens when someone who is not supposed to connects to a DHCP
served network? (Besides that they are connected to the network and are
not supposed to be.)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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