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dhcpwn — Test DHCP IP exhaustion attacks and sniff local DHCP traffic. More information: <https://github.com/

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Problem

How to use the dhcpwn command: Test DHCP IP exhaustion attacks and sniff local DHCP traffic. More information: <https://github.com/mschwager/dhcpwn>.

Solution

dhcpwn — Test DHCP IP exhaustion attacks and sniff local DHCP traffic. More information: <https://github.com/mschwager/dhcpwn>.

Flood the network with IP requests:

dhcpwn {{[-i|--interface]}} {{network_interface}} flood {{[-c|--count]}} {{number_of_requests}}

Sniff local DHCP traffic:

dhcpwn {{[-i|--interface]}} {{network_interface}} sniff

Code Snippets

Flood the network with IP requests

dhcpwn {{[-i|--interface]}} {{network_interface}} flood {{[-c|--count]}} {{number_of_requests}}

Sniff local DHCP traffic

dhcpwn {{[-i|--interface]}} {{network_interface}} sniff

Context

tldr-pages: common/dhcpwn

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