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This 9 page paper is a report on report discussing how an intruder can compromise network security by subverting the ARP protocol. The weaknesses are illustrated with examples of how this may occur in different scenarios, including various operating systems and network types. The bibliography cites 14 sources.
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File: TS14_TEarpsec.rtf
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the interception of communications. Many areas have been examined and tools developed to prevent a breach of security but there are still many potential routes for tapping into communications. This
has become simple as a result of the spread of technology, with tools that can be downloaded form the internet facilitating tapping into messages.
Using the address resolution protocol (ARP) position technique communication between two LANs can be intercepted in a simple manner. It is only by understanding the weaknesses of
ARP that this one weakness may be addressed. ARP is the address resolution protocol, this is a TCP/IP protocol (transmission control protocol/internet protocol), is the way that the Ethernet
address of a host will be found as a result of its internet address. This is a "protocol that dynamically binds a Network-Layer IP address to a Data-Link-Layer physical
hardware address, e.g., Ethernet address" (Telecom Glossary 2K, 2001). The ARP packet which holds the internet address of the target host
is broadcast and then waits for the host to send back the relevant Ethernet address (Sinclair, 2003). Where there is a great deal of traffic the potential bottleneck may be
seen as a problem, however this is not the case as the host will retain a cache of the translated addressed ready to transmits and reduce the delay in loading
time (Sinclair, 2003). The benefit is that this system will allow the internet address and the Ethernet address to be independent (Sinclair, 2003).
However, for this system to operate all the hosts need to support the system (Sinclair, 2003). The alterative which may be used is ARP is not supported is
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