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Re: how to flood the mac address table of a switch?


From: Ranjeet Shetye <ranjeet.shetye2 () zultys com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:37:27 -0800

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 09:17, Hans Müller wrote:
How can flood the mac address table of a switch, to see that the security 
function of my switch work?


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Nemesis-arp from the Nemesis project

http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/nemesis/

setup a linux box, script your requirements using nemesis-arp to send
out packets with varying source/dst mac/IP addresses, and voila! instant
arp flood!!

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Ranjeet Shetye
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Zultys Technologies
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