Re: MAC Bindings

From: Seth Arnold (sarnold@wirex.com)
Date: 08/23/01 

Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:15:40 -0700
From: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: MAC Bindings
Message-ID: <20010823101540.T11991@wirex.com>

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:17:06PM +0200, Richard Arends wrote:
> You can disable arp on youre NIC with ifconfig (-arp or noarp). Then you
> have to build a static arp-table for that NIC where al the hosts in your
> are listed in with arp -s.

Of course, many network drivers allow dynamically changing the MACs
on NICs. While two similar MACs on one network will probably cause
problems anyway, a static ARP table won't help much. :(

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