In this chapter, we are discussing layer 2 attacks; I bet you are wondering why we talked about a network layer protocol (DHCP in our case). The answer is easy. Attackers can perform what we call DHCP starvation. An attacker broadcasts DHCP requests with spoofed MAC addresses; this attack exploits the DHCP servers address space. This attack can be done using a simple tools, such as the gobbler.
DHCP starvation
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