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Man page of MACOF

MACOF

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NAME

macof - flood a switched LAN with random MAC addresses

SYNOPSIS

macof [-i interface] [-s src] [-d dst] [-e tha] [-x sport] [-y dport] [-n times]

DESCRIPTION

macof floods the local network with random MAC addresses (causing some switches to fail open in repeating mode, facilitating sniffing). A straight C port of the original Perl Net::RawIP macof program by Ian Vitek <ian.vitek@infosec.se>.

OPTIONS

-i interface: Specify the interface to send on.
-s src: Specify source IP address.
-d dst: Specify destination IP address.
-e tha: Specify target hardware address.
-x sport: Specify TCP source port.
-y dport: Specify TCP destination port.
-n times: Specify the number of packets to send.

Values for any options left unspecified will be generated randomly.

AUTHOR

Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org>

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 07:34:21 GMT, September 13, 2011

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