ARP Poisoning Attack to defend

ARP Poisoning is a protocol that associates a given IP Address with the Link Layer address of the relevant physical machine. Since IPv4 is still the most commonly used internet protocol. ARP generally bridges the gap between 32 bit IPv4 address and 48 bit mac addresses. It works in both direction. ARP Poisoning Attack to defend

ARP is a stateless protocol that is used within a broadcast domain to ensure the communication by resolving the IP address to MAC address maping. The relationship between a given MAC address and its IP address in kept in  a table known as the ARP cache. ARP protocol ensure the binding of IP address and mac address. By borad casting the ARP request with IP addresses, the switch can learn the associated MAC Address information form the reply of the specific host.

In the event that there is a no map or the map is unknown, the source will send a  broadcast to all nodes just the node with a coordinating MAC address for that IP will answer to the demand with the packet that involves the MAC address mapping. The switch will learn the MAC address and its connected port information into its fixed length CAM table.

As shown in the figure, the source generates the ARP query by broadcasting the ARP packet, A node  having the MAC address, the query is destined for will reply only to the packet. The frames  is floaded out all ports (other than the port on which the frame was received). If CAM table entries are full this also happen when the destination MAC Address in the frame is the broadcast address. MAC flooding technique is used to turn a switch into a hub in which switch starts broadcasting each and every packet. In the scenario,  each user can catch the packet even those packets which is not intende.

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