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


From: "dave kleiman" <dave () isecureu com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:36:39 -0500

I would have to say ettercap would be the easiest to use to accomplish this,
it is free, and works in most OS's.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ettercap/

Pick your NIC, pick IP scan go, go to plugins and pick flood the LAN with
random MAC addresses

 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Müller [mailto:ndof () gmx li] 
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 12:17
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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