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RE: switch jamming


From: "Toni Heinonen" <Toni.Heinonen () teleware fi>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:48:02 +0200

      Static ARP entries can prevent this if implement on the switch
(and it is a good idea to use them on all the network devices 
as well).
Also, protocols such as IPSEC can strengthen any protocols tunneled
through it against manipulation or sniffing.

Indeed. However static ARP entries don't help on Windows workstations, as opposed to what most people think. You can 
configure a static ARP entry with the arp-command, true, but ARP is a stateless protocol which means we can answer even 
if no one asks. If we send ARP-responses to a Windows computer, they overwrite the static ARP entries. That means we 
can poison the ARP cache at any time, we don't have to sit and wait for the computer to send ARP-requests.

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Toni Heinonen, CISSP
Teleware Oy
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