Re: A bit strange ARP queries

Jeff Kell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tillmann Werner wrote:

>Rea,
>
>that trace is more than a bit strange and should be really alarming. One can 
>do lots of dirty things abusing ARP.
>  
>
>> Has anyone seen such ARP packets? I am a bit curious, because we have no
>>strange hardware that will set the target hardware address in the who-has
>>ARP packet. Are there any attacks that using such packets?
>>    
>>
It has been quite some time since I've seen it in action, but this 
sounds very much like reverse arp (RARP), RFC-903, but without the 
complete packet, I couldn't say for certain.

Jeff
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