Hi Richard,

This is most probably a virus.
Saw it at G-Uganda last week and saw it again today at a client's place.

Isolate the rogue DHCP server and eliminate. You can see which IP is it by
looking at the affected machine's DHCP lease info.
It also gives a rogue DNS server 188.x.x.x to the affected machines.

Kind regards,
Bernard

On 16 September 2011 17:21, Rocco Radisch <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Sorry to hear that Richard.
> ARP Poisoning is some very nasty stuff, up to the point of faking
> certificates and spoofing passwords of so called secure services.
> Try arp watch in the meantime. http://sid.rstack.org/arp-sk/
> That would only log changes in the ARP cache and arp announcement from your
> machine.
> There are devices you hook into the network which do the same. That only
> applies for 1 subnet though.
> Final solution is as you said port security via switches.
> To protect your firewall (e.g. pfSense/Monowall) there are some kernel
> (module) based solutions protecting from this kind of attacks. The firewall
> would prevent any change of ip/mac associations so at least your link from
> the machines to the net is "secured"
> Regards,
> Rocco
>
>
>
> On 16/09/2011 5:13 PM, Richard Zulu wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
>  I am experiencing some kind of ARP poisoning causing a DOS on my network.
>
>  I used wireshark to investigate the traffic on my network and discovered
> a storm of arp broadcast traffic on my network. A tcpdump too indicated the
> same thing. Sample tcpdump output is shown below:
>
>  16:10:12.270910 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.1 tell 192.168.2.131,
> length 46
> 16:10:12.270915 ARP, Reply 192.168.2.1 is-at 00:e0:81:30:7b:6e (oui
> Unknown), length 28
> 16:10:12.270921 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.131 tell 192.168.2.4, length
> 46
> 16:10:12.270927 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.1 tell 192.168.2.131, length
> 46
> 16:10:12.270932 ARP, Reply 192.168.2.1 is-at 00:e0:81:30:7b:6e (oui
> Unknown), length 28
> 16:10:12.270961 IP6 fe80::f561:405:1bcb:b766 > ff02::1:ffc3:9370: ICMP6,
> neighbor solicitation, who has fe80::b699:baff:fec3:9370, length 32
> 16:10:12.270965 IP 192.168.2.131.netbios-dgm > 192.168.2.255.netbios-dgm:
> NBT UDP PACKET(138)
> 16:10:12.270974 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.1 tell 192.168.2.131, length
> 46
> 16:10:12.270979 ARP, Reply 192.168.2.1 is-at 00:e0:81:30:7b:6e (oui
> Unknown), length 28
> 16:10:12.270985 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.2.1 tell 192.168.2.131, length
> 46
>
>  Now, interesting, hardly had I disconnected from the network than another
> machine assumed my ip address. When I checked the dhcp server, that ip
> address had not yet been assigned to another machine on the network. On
> reconnecting my laptop back to the network, the dhcp server issued me with
> my original ip address, however, wireshark indicated that their is a
> duplicate of my very ip address on the network. The dhcp server still
> maintained my laptop is the only one using the ip address. This is how I
> came to the conclusion I have an issue with ARP.
>
>  So..right now, I have the mac address of the other machine on the network
> that is assuming to use my ip address and am hunting for it. However, this
> doesn't seem to be the solution.
>
>  I am also planning on implementing the port security feature on my
> switches so that I have one mac address allowed per port.
>
>  My question however is, is there any other way I can overcome this?
>
>
>  --
> Richard Zulu
> gtug lead, Kampala (Uganda)
> http://kampala.gtugs.org
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