Re: [dhcwg] question regarding dhcp

Good Morning,
	I am a member of the IANA at large community and what they told you for 
the most part is correct. There is an article for the layman on IP Spoofing 
on-line at http://www.fc.net/phrack/files/p48/p48-14.html which may help 
you, as long as you understand the basics of TCP/IP.  Bear in mind though I 
don't think that these web tv users are spoofing addresses, because if that 
where the case they would not be getting responses back from the IP packets 
they send out.  I think there may be some DHCP server issues here.

	Spoofing is the creation of TCP/IP packets using somebody else's IP 
address. Routers use the "destination IP" address in order to forward 
packets through the Internet, but ignore the "source IP" address. That 
address is only used by the destination machine when it responds back to 
the source.

	"A common misconception is that "IP spoofing" can be used to hide your IP 
address while surfing the Internet, chatting on-line, sending e-mail, and 
so forth. This is generally not true. Forging the source IP address causes 
the responses to be misdirected, meaning you cannot create a normal network 
connection."  (networkice.com)

	If you would like more help with this problem, feel free to email me directly.

Hal F. Gottfried


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