Network spoofing tools
In the previous section, we talked about several tools that are used as network sniffer or network protocol analysis. In this section we will see several tools that can be used to do network spoofing.
Network spoofing is a process to modify network data, such as MAC address, IP address, and so on. The goal of this process is to be able to get the data from two communicating parties.
Arpspoof
Arpspoof is useful to sniff network traffic in a switch environment. In the previous chapter it is stated that sniffing network traffic in a switch environment is hard, but by using arpspoof, it is possible.
Arpspoof works by forging ARP replies to both communicating parties.
In a normal situation, when host A wants to communicate with ...
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