Nmap Development: Re: MAC replies

[Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi () mithrandi za net>]

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.
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