> Maybe this is an opportunity for something as an extension or parallel
> to arpwatch, perhaps called spoofwatch, which builds up a similar list
> of MAC/IP pairs for arp requests on the network, but then continuously
> compares those against all the packets it sees, to check whether
> machine 1 with MAC address mac1 and IP address IP1 ever sends out a
> packet with IP address IP2 as the source, or alternatively if it ever
> sees a packet with a MAC address which doesn't belong to a system on
> the network.
Now that you mention it Snort can do that, and checks every packet, which
is great. It just needs a table of valid MACs/IPs 

Unfortunately, here, with over 800 computers, managed via BOOTP on 4
different LANs and cisco routers it would require to set up an additional
linux host with all interfaces to all LANs and update the MAC/IP tables
every time there is a change to bootptab. Hmm, i think it's a good idea.

Now i think it is a great solution, which did not come into my mind.
Thanks.

> Antony.
Maciej



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