Re: Stopping Arp poison attacks

From: Taylan KIRAN (taylankiran@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2006 - 05:34:50 EDT


I dont know if anybody suggest arpwatch.
 by using arpwatch you can catch arp poisoning
attacks,
manual ip assignment, ip conflicts easily.
static arp entries also can be used for critical
nodes(servers and routers). but as i know(I am not
sure) static arp entry is not solution for windows
machines.

--- Cedric Blancher <blancher@cartel-securite.fr>
wrote:

> Le jeudi 01 juin 2006 � 08:14 +0000, P. Entester a
> �crit :
> > If i recommend our customers to bind the MAC
> addresses of mission critical
> > servers' network interfaces to their respective
> ports on the routers and
> > switches, does that migitate most of the threat or
> am i missing something
> > important?
>
> No, that does not mitigate the issue. What you're
> missing is that ARP
> cache poisoning does not change host MAC address,
> but the association
> between a MAC address and an IP address in ARP
> cache.
>
> In addition to pointers that were already given, you
> can try this one
> for ARP cache poisoning understanding:
>
> http://sid.rstack.org/arp-sk/
>
> One other mitigation technic is static ARP cache
> entries, but it can
> become painful to maintain quite fast as network
> grows.
>
>
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