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Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by eptcyka on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:19PM (#30666771)
Have you not heard of the immensely popular man-between-the-first-hop-attack where hackers physically attach another hop between your server and its gateway?
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Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by tptacek on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:41PM (#30667302)
Even in that joke scenario it doesn't make sense, since those attackers control the MAC layer already.
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Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by c0balt on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:19AM (#30669069)
No, I've only encountered (wo)man-unplugging-the-first-hop. It leads to a lot of dropped packets and impacts all connected peers of the first hop.
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