From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-03-17T23:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: detect rogue DHCP server

On 17 Mar 2009, at 13:50, lists wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> In the presentation we also cover the use of libpcap for watching  
>> on-the-wire traffic and that's probably the way to go for detecting  
>> the ACK packet if you have the privileges to put your NIC in  
>> promiscuous mode.
>>
>> You'll also find a slew of network code of varying quality  
>> scattered through the other linked presentations and some of that  
>> may give you inspiration: the UDP client examples in the "Semantic  
>> DNS" and "Shoes" presentations are particularly lightweight and  
>> should (with a big "I'm guessing without writing the code myself"  
>> disclaimer) apply equally to raw sockets.
>
> Ellie, you generously reference your slides pretty frequently.  Had  
> you ever given thought to fleshing out some of your ideas in a book  
> or downloadable pdf?

I'd love to if I can find the time to do it justice :)


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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