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Re: results of the first honeyd challenge (dynamic honeynet?)


From: Niels Provos <provos () citi umich edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:40:17 -0500

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:42:55AM +0200, Wim Mees wrote:
If the DHCP server then hands out this address to a client, this client will
in turn probe with an ARP request to see whether this IP address is really
really free. Since you don't block the client, its ARP request will be
received by the honeypot and will receive and ARP reply from arpd. As a
result, the client will not accept the lease :(
You can configure arpd to take IP addresses from certain IP ranges.
You just need to make sure that there is no overlap with the IP
address range of the DHCP server.

Niels.


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