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Re: [cobalt-security] DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! A tool for MIM/c*apfilt and poisoning listed on /.
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! A tool for MIM/c*apfilt and poisoning listed on /.
- From: "Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:06:42 -0400
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
From: "Paul Gillingwater" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> If the IP address you
> request is in a different subnet, then the default gateway
> (usually your router or firewall) will respond with its
> own MAC address.
I thought that if the IP address you requested was in a different subnet,
your PC/network device would automatically forward that request to the
default gateway? Otherwise, why would you need to tell your PC/network
device what your default gateway was?
ARP, I thought, only dealt with mapping IPs to MAC address. It should have
nothing to do with routing to a default gateway, right?
Kevin