DHCP security

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Oct 10 00:20:49 UTC 2007


> I've been on university systems that use a hotel-like system.  On the
> first connection on port 80 to any address, one is directed to an
> authentication page.  All access is blocked to any address on all ports
> until that authentication is given.

Which means an attacker simply sits on the network waits for someone to
authenticate and then takes on their MAC address.

Alan




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