Re: Terrible problem, some men in my net changed their MACs! :/

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On Mar 31 mai 2005 16:10, Peter Surda a écrit :
> On Tue, 31 May 2005 13:36:25 +0200 (CEST) "Sylvain BERTRAND"
> <sylvain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
> hi
>
>>I highly suggest you use arpwatch. It's a daemon that monitors MAC/IP on
>> a
>>network, and can notify the administrator when something changes.
> arpwatch can only find out if the user changes his/her IP. If they change
> their
> MAC (and fake someone elses), you're out of luck :-(.

apt-cache show arpwatch
[...]
Description: Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor
 Arpwatch maintains a database of Ethernet MAC addresses seen on the
 network, with their associated IP pairs.  Alerts the system administrator
 via e-mail if any change happens, such as new station/activity,
 flip-flops, changed and re-used old addresses.


>>If you want to force the MAC for an IP, use "arp -f /etc/ethers" (man
>> arp).
>>Iptables does the same thing with MAC matching, but using arp with a
>> fixed
>>table is "the proper thing to do" (tm).
> [advertisement+joke]
> Actually, "the proper thing to do" is to use ipset + macipmap, just like
> Route
> Hat does ;-)
> [/advertisement+joke]

Well, it's up to you ;-)


Regards,


Sylvain

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