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Re: Windows 2000 Static arp not static


From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:38:08 -0800

Tim Habex wrote:
To prevent this behaviour, I setup static routes both on the gateway and the
Windows machine. Yet I didn't get the result I was expecting.
I was still able to see packets on the Debian machine, yet I was no longer
able to control the packets.

When I looked at the arp cache of Linux, the static entry was there and
working (?), but on the Windows machine, THE VALUE OF THE STATIC ARP WAS
CHANGED. When ethercap was disabled, the static arp entry was returned to
the original value.

Previously known issue:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vuln-dev/2001-q4/0541.html

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