Re: Sniffing on a switch

From: Cedric Blancher (blancher@cartel-securite.fr)
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 15:51:04 EDT


Le samedi 29 octobre 2005 à 12:48 +0200, Volker Tanger a écrit :
> And yes, all unprotected switches can be subjected to ARP poisoning. But
> (again) many manageable switches can be configured with preventive
> measures:
> - static/manual MAC/port mapping
> - automatic one-time MAC/port config: the very first MAC/port
> combination seen is taken as semi-static entry, all others are dropped.
> - limiting number of MAC addresses per port allowed
> (which helps against rogue switches and router, too)

Do you mean theses measures can prevent ARP cache poisoning ? Because
they just don't.

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