Re: RARP attack?

[avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)]

In some mail from Pete Ashdown, sie said:
[...]
> The only question I have for the list is why someone would do this?  They hit
> some of our Suns, but not all of them, and none of our routers or terminal
> servers were affected.  I believe it wasn't a spoofing attack since the MAC
> addresses were bogus and didn't resolve to anything.  All I can think is that
> someone just wanted to bring us down, and nothing else.

...like a good way to keep a box quiet if you want to use its IP address
as part of IP spoofing, rather than block up sockets using bogus SYN packets ?

darren