Re: DHCP Spoofing

"John M. Wobus" <jmwobus@mailbox.syr.edu> Tue, 05 November 1996 16:20 UTC

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In message <9611011649.AA04381@junior.tp.ac>you write:
>For the ascend ISDN router/bridges, that's a setting you can set so that
>the ascend box will reply with a "temporary" DHCP assignment for host
>machines hooked up to it....I think you can also set the lease time so
>that you can force the client machine to renew its license once the 
>ISDN line is up and stable. (i.e. give an address to pacify Win95 during
>the ISDN connection and dialup phases).
>
>At least that's how I understood it...
>
>
>> 
>> I just ran into a router feature called "DHCP Spoofing".  It was
>> in an ascend pipeline 50 router.  Anyone know what DHCP spoofing is?
>> 
>> -John Wobus
>> 
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>-- 
>William Burns                                             wdburns@tp.ac.com
>  Mac/Unix Network Administrator
>  Andersen Consulting                                            847.714.2098
>  Technology Park Network Services, Alternative Technology Group
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Thanks: just what I was wanting to know.  I guess instead of choosing
the phrase "DHCP Spoofing", I'd have chosen the phrase "Small DHCP
server".

-John Wobus