Dale Ghent wrote:
On May 29, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Sebastien Roy wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 11:30 -0700, Peter Memishian wrote:
I see, but it seems to me like that's something that ipfilter could
handle that more effectively.
IP Filter can filter ARP traffic? Or are you suggesting using IP filter
to filter all traffic that isn't from a bounded set of IP addresses?
In any case, I agree there are other ways to do this.
The latter; ARP isn't useful nor harmful on its own if IP can't move
packets.
I've *heard* of cases where people desire to have a stealth network
sniffer, which I suppose would entail silencing arp on the promiscuous
interfaces involved. Surely not a huge or overriding use case.
Isn't that usually done via ifconfig's "-arp" argument?
BSD and Linux have the same ifconfig [-]arp parameter, but their arp
command doesn't allow you to shoot your head off..
Drew
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