Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:52 -0600, Topher Fischer wrote:
>   
>> Also, in my mind, the solution to this problem seems too easy.  I must
>> be missing something.  Why do machines even pay attention to ARP replies
>> that they did not solicit?  Why isn't ARP just implemented so that when
>> a request is sent out, then any matching replies are processed and
>> nothing more?  What am I missing here?
>>     
>
> I "researched" this one time too. What I found was that Linux and Cisco
> devices were not vulnerable to ARP spoofing because they did just as you
> outline. I looked through some of the ARP code in Linux and that
> appeared to indeed be the case, although I can't say I know that for
> sure. Windows was easily spoofed however.
>
> Corey
>   
It works against my laptop, which is running 2.6.19 right now.

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