From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jan 26 9:14:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E519B14E9C; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id JAA16404; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:13:36 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA14030; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:13:36 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id JAA01615; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:13:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388F2C60.1E045043@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:18:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alex N. Zhuravlev" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Win IP assigning References: <388EAF63.8564A351@scn.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Alex N. Zhuravlev" wrote: > > Hi all ! > Please help who knows how ... > The problem is that Win machine with misconfigured IP stack with > "automatic assign IP address" steals my server IP address. Why and how > can this be ? First, there is no question in the world that should be cross-posted to both FreeBSD-Questions and FreeBSD-Security. I've directed replies to the questions mailing list to keep this from spreading. Second, if the win machine is configured to "automatically assign IP address", it's getting that address from a DHCP server and you've stolen one of the addresses doled out by the DHCP server. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message