[ale] Hijacking my own IP

Calvin Harrigan calvin.harrigan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 11:55:00 EDT 2021


On 6/11/2021 11:53, Chris Fowler via Ale wrote:
> I have a HP printer and Linux device with the same IP address on a 
> network.  I have no control over the printer.  I'm trying to figure 
> out how to effectively use arping to "hijack" my own IP on this subnet.
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> My remote connection to the device is dropped at random times. I'm 
> guessing maybe someone is printing. This causes the firewall to update 
> its arp cache, send a packet to the HP instead of my device, and I get 
> a RST on my end because the HP said, "I have no clue what this is."
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I guess some background on why the printer and linux device has to use 
the same address might clear it up a bit for us.

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