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

["Jim Laverty" <jim () wangtrading com>]

Ignore this response I glanced over the word 'flood' and responded to 'list'
the arp table.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Laverty [mailto:jim () wangtrading com] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:39 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: how to flood the mac address table of a switch?


Are you refering to the arp table?  

Use a Console connection (management port) or telnet (if enabled) into the
switch.

On Cisco IOS run 'show arp'
On Extreme run 'show iparp'

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Müller [mailto:ndof () gmx li] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:17 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: how to flood the mac address table of a switch?


How can flood the mac address table of a switch, to see that the security 
function of my switch work?


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