
ARP Cache Poisoning-Based MiM and DoS Attacks ◾ 27
Using any packet builder tool, the above fake ARP request
can be easily built. CommView Visual Packet Builder pro-
vides a very friendly GUI interface to build ARP packets. The
following screenshot shows the content of the fake unicast
ARP request packet that is built to corrupt Host A’s ARP cache.
After sending the above fake ARP packet to Host A, the
ARP cache of Host A becomes corrupted with the invalid
entry, as shown below.
Consequently, as long as the ARP cache of Host A remains
corrupted, all the traffic sent by Host A to Host B will be redi-
rected to Host C. The following two exercises ...