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Re: (ASCEND) DHCP Spoofing/P75 Address Robbing
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Richard Johnsson wrote:
> A P50 configured to be on a remote network (R) was accidentally connected
> to the local ethernet (E). Since the P50 thought it was on network R, it
> happily responded to all arp requests it saw for hosts on network E. This
> effectively turned it into a black hole on the net sucking up all packets.
> Since the P50 wasn't doing anything else it was *very* fast at answering
> arp requests.
Yah. Been there, done that. We also found out the hard way - twice -
that if you changed the Pipe's configuration and saved it, it set its
default route to point to the remote end and then cheerfully broadcast it
with RIP. We finally learned to only change the profiles...
Dale
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