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ARP spoofing is an attack technique which sends spoofed Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) messages to Local Area Network (LAN). The idea is to identify attacker's MAC address as the address of another network host and redirect traffic intended for another IP address to the attacker's IP address instead.

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ARP poisoning between a wired and wireless network

ARP is local to a network "wire". In traditional Ethernet, there was a single cable going through all machines in a LAN; the full network is then a collection of LAN, linked together through special m …
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Why is ettercap targetting the whole network?

As explained here, some operating systems ignore some ARP responses. In particular, Linux will ignore unsolicited responses, but will use apparently legit request and replies from other hosts on the n …
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Doesn't an IP conflict occur when ARP spoofing?

Get to the roots ! If you know what ARP does, things will be clearer. On a subnet (machines plugged into the same set of hubs and switches), the machines talk to each other with MAC addresses: the MA …
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