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Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack


From: lcamtuf () DIONE IDS PL (Michal Zalewski)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:52:26 +0100


On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Paul Keefer wrote:

It seems like it would be trivial to use a linux box to use proxy
arping to send out a large number of DHCP requests until the server
has no more to give out.

This of course assumes that the network is not using switches that
prevent multiple MACs per port, and that the DHCP servers are not
configured to give IPs out only to specific MACs or something like
that.

On poorly switched networks, you might simply start second dhcpd, causing
real disaster (DoSaster?).

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