Re: Secure DHCP?

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () cctec com>]

WINS and SMB file sharing are not broadcast based.  The name location
mechanism in Windows networking is broadcast based, if you don't use WINS.
WINS eliminates that need.

Eric


At 08:50 PM 7/24/99 -0700, Aaron Hopkins wrote:
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> > After having experienced a rather malicious attack on our corporate
network by 
> > someone running a rogue DHCP server, I'm wondering if there's any way to 
> > prevent this from happening again?
>
> Ask your ethernet switch/bridge or cablemodem vendor for a method of
> disabling non-ARP broadcasts from being received by client machines.  You
> can then trust your switches to direct such requests only to anything you
> let receive broadcasts, which should only be trusted servers.
>
> Cisco's IRB bridging has "subscriber-policy" which roughly approximates this
> that I use for our DSL customers.  I believe their higher-end switches can
> take layer-2 access-lists, which could be made to work similarly. 
>
> Any protocol that relies on trusting the first server to reply to a
> broadcast is similiarly vulnerable.  I'm not sure theres a way to secure the
> protocol itself if the client has zero knowledge of the network its on when
> it starts up, which is the point of DHCP.
>
> Note that disabling broadcasts may adversely affect some already-broken
> protocols, such as WINS or SMB.  This might only prevent shares off of
> "client" machines from showing up in others' Network Neighborhood, but I
> can't say that I've tested it.
>
>                   Aaron Hopkins
>                   aaron () cyberverse com 
>                   Chief Technical Officer, Cyberverse Inc.
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