Subject: Re: help w/ tcpdump/arp
To: Brian Grayson <bgrayson@latte.ece.utexas.edu>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/07/1998 09:57:33
Try tcpdump -e

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Brian Grayson wrote:

>   A little while ago, I had reason to believe one of the machines on
> our subnet had been broken into -- the subnet was flooded with
> messages from a numerical IP not on our net, to a named host not on
> our net.  And the numerical IP would change every 20 packets or so.
> 
>   Is there a flag to tcpdump that says, print out the ethernet address
> of the sending machine, so that I could tell which of the 200 or so
> machines on the subnet was responsible?  Is there any good
> method/program for translating Ethernet addresses to IPs?  arp looks
> like it'll only do the reverse, and arp -a will only show current cached
> ARP entries, not all entries for the whole subnet.
> 
>   Fortunately, the flooding stopped, but it could start up again any
> minute now....
> 
>   Brian
> 
> 

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