The ARP Poisoning attack consists of poisoning the ARP table of a victim, making it believe that the router is the attacker, with the objective that the victim forwards all its traffic to this attacker to perform a sniffing of each and every one of the connections that perform. The ARP protocol was not designed with the aim of being secure, so it does not verify at any time that the response to an ARP request really comes from a legitimate host, anyone could impersonate another host easily and quickly, performing an ARP Poisoning attack. ARP Poisoning attacks are specifically focused on this entry, and now we will explain why. One of the most important entries in the ARP table is the one displayed by the router, usually the first IP address on the subnet.
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In this way, if a certain computer does not know the MAC of an IP address, it will have to send an ARP request packet, requesting the corresponding MAC address from other computers. We can see all the ARP tables of the different network cards that we have, a very important detail is that we can remove or put IP-MAC pairs from this ARP table manually.Īll computers keep this ARP table as a cache, so it will be renewed temporarily or as new computers appear with which we want to communicate, that is, it is a dynamic table and it changes depending on the communications that we are going to make. In the following image you can see the private IP addresses (Internet addresses) and also the MAC addresses of all the devices (Physical Address).
We ourselves can see the ARP table of our computer to see all the computers on the local network with which there is currently communication, if we open a console and put the following command: The ARP protocol only exists in IPv4 networks, in IPv6 networks this same work is carried out by ICMPv6, which incorporates more functions than in IPv4. The ARP protocol is responsible for forming a table with the IP-MAC pair, and that the different computers on the local network can communicate with each other without problems, in addition, it also ensures that the computers can communicate with the router to access the Internet Since the router will also have a LAN IP address and a MAC address, where the different PCs and devices will send their frames to be managed by the router. The ARP protocol allows network communications to reach their destination correctly, its objective is to translate IP addresses (logical addresses) into a MAC address (physical addresses) and vice versa. The ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) protocol is one of the fundamental protocols in IPv4 networks, without this protocol we could not obtain an IP address by DHCP or communicate with other computers, even if we have put a private IP address on our computer. Measures to mitigate this attack What is the ARP protocol?
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