Disrupt the Bottom of the Wall, and the Top Is Disrupted, Too

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Disrupt the Bottom of the Wall, and the Top Is Disrupted, Too

Everything at Layer 3 and higher is encapsulated into some type of Layer 2 frame. If the attacker can interrupt, copy, redirect, or confuse the Layer 2 forwarding of data, that same attacker can also disrupt any type of upper-layer protocols that are being used.

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