Unsolicited Incoming ARP

[Friend of Bill]

Can anyone shed some light on this firewall message?


"Unsolicited incoming ARP reply detected, this is a kind of MAC spoofing that may consequently do harm to your computer."


This caused my system to freeze and when I rebooted, Control Panel/Network Connections was listed as "none" until another reboot.

 

[Enyo]

Unsolicited ARP packets are nothing to be concerned over and ARP spooring is not really a scalable attack and not all that practically on the Internet.

I would guess the system freeze was caused by your firewall not correctly handling this event.

 

[GoNz0]

i was reading a rogue ARP packet can poison your network and cause the freeze, stops all traffic in and out as the pc / firewall cannot release the packet.

ties in with enyo saying the firewall mis handled it

 

[Bootsy]

hehe arp attacks

 

[Friend of Bill]

Thanks Gonzo and Enyo, no problems since...