On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:37 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> Practically speaking, there is no way to stop them if they have physical
> access to the network and/or administrative access to the machine, unless
> you have an intelligent switch which is capable of being told "only let DHCP
> traffic through by default", then getting the DHCP server to change the ACL
> on the port for the requestor MAC address after successful DHCP lease
> assignment.

Its relatively easy to hook up snort and your dhcp leases file, so that
traffic to from an ip not in there triggers a warning. If your switch is
at all managable, that could well shutdown the problem port, by querying
for the source of the MAC.

Rob




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