Re: Bug#431066: install network/ip-up.d script to check for IP duplicates
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:20:47PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > And DHCP clients should double-check their assigned address with ARP
> > anyway, so it's duplicating this check on most systems.
> Where is this specified? The DHCP server is authorative about the
> addresses it assigns.
ISC dhcp seems to implement the state in the scripts, but never actually
run such a check.
Just to outline the consequences of such a check: Windows systems does
this and I managed to make all of them remove there (static assigned)
address. It is a DoS only using ARP packets.
Bastian
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