Good point.

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Patrick Hardeveld wrote:
> 
> > I have asked this one before but I did not recieve 1 reaction. I thought
> > I try again. This is still the case: when I'm connected to the Internet
> > and I do an arp -a command, it gives me a couple of (different ofcourse)
> > ip-addresses with all the same mac-address. As we all know, every
> > mac-address is unique so what I am seeing is impossible. I actually
> > don't know what is causing this. Maybe a man in the middle attack??
> 
> Probably not...
> 
> In addition to what Mike has told you, you probably are seeing the effects 
> of a proxy arp.  A router is giving you its ARP information for hosts on 
> the other side of a connection.  Remember, true ARP information only 
> exists on the locally connect LAN.  You don't get ARP information across 
> links in a WAN.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 



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