Re: A bit strange ARP queries

"Samuel R. Baskinger" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Organization Lumeta Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  Eygene A. Ryabinkin wrote:
>
> > Good day!
> >
> > 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? ----- 15:29:59.908901 arp who-has the-host-in-question
> > (4:c0:40:1:e0:df) tell the-requester
> > 15:30:00.911228 arp who-has the-host-in-question (57:43:50:10:40:0)
> > tell the-requester
> > 15:30:01.912045 arp who-has

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> > ----- 'the-host-in-question' and 'the-requester' are, of course, IP
> > addresses.

I've seen a few network tools use this method as a sort of Level-2 ping. 
If you find the cuperit I'd be interested in what software its running.

Sam
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