CISSP Fix

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1. Look for visual cues

ARP spoofing is a common method of attacking a network by stealing the IP address of a network server and sniffing the traffic passed to it.

An open source solution is ArpON “Arp handler inspectiON”. It is a portable ARP handler and it detects and blocks all ARP Poisoning/Spoofing attacks with Static Arp Inspection (SARPI) and Dynamic Arp Inspection (DARPI) approach on switched/hubbed LAN with/without DHCP protocol.

Some switch vendors have devised a defense against this form of attack that imposes very strict control over what ARP packets are allowed into the network. Allied Telesis switches have a sub-feature of DHCP Snooping, known as ARP Security, while the equivalent feature on Cisco devices is called Dynamic ARP Inspection.