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Nmap Development: Re: MAC replies

Re: MAC replies

From: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi_at_mithrandi.za.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:57:28 +0200

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 15:19:56 -0700, Brett Campbell wrote:
> ARP is not a very reliable source of authenticity. Things like tarpits
> and proxy-arp make this approach unfeasible. And some IDS will be
> alarmed by a flood of 200+ ARP requests in < 1s.

It still seems like an ARP ping "method" would be a useful feature; it
doesn't have to be the default. 

-- 
mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar

Received on Oct 19 2004
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