Introducing ARP spoofing and implementing it using Python
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is used to convert the IP address to its corresponding Ethernet (MAC) address. When a packet comes to the Network layer (OSI), it has an IP address and a data link layer packet that needs the MAC address of the destination device. In this case, the sender uses the ARP protocol.
The term address resolution refers to the process of finding the MAC address of a computer in a network. The following are the two types of ARP messages that might be sent by the ARP:
- The ARP request
- The ARP reply
The ARP request
A host machine might want to send a message to another machine in the same subnet. The host machine only knows the IP address while the MAC address is required ...
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