[CLUE-Tech] Finding rogue IPs.

Warren Raquel clue at sohonetworksetup.com
Thu Nov 21 12:17:37 MST 2002


I've seen it done before. The way I went about finding the culprit was to 
review all my switches to see what port had logged that ARP.

At 12:09 PM 11/21/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Suppose you have a network in your two story office building with around 
>250 network drops (10/100BT hubs).  Suppose one of your servers becomes 
>unreachable and you find that arp gives you a different MAC address than 
>you expect.
>
>Seems like someone has plugged in a machine and given it the same IP as 
>your server, and somehow this rogue machine wins the arp battle.  So your 
>IP has been stolen.
>
>Anyone seen this before?
>
>How would you find the rogue machine to fix the problem?
>
>Dave
>
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