full-disclosure - Stealing DHCP Leases

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Message-ID: <b1b539740410122151165efd13@mail.gmail.com>
From: garth.stone at gmail.com (Garth Stone)
Subject: Stealing DHCP Leases

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:08:07 -0700, Ian Holm <macaddict@...holm.com> wrote:
> I was noticing that the number of DHCP address in the DHCP cache was running
> low so I decided to check which computers were assigned to each address. To
> my horror I saw that there were 81 addresses assigned at exactly the same
> time and all expired at exactly the same time. I'm assuming that these were
> all assigned to the same machine. How is this possible? Where could I learn
> about this and how to prevent it?
> 
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Ive actually seen the same thing happen with a faulty network card..
We replaced it with an identical card and the problem was resolved..
Stick the faulty one back in.. Same problem.