When iPhones Attack

Duke network administrators are complaining that iPhones are launching inadvertent ARP floods on their Wi-Fi network. Their research indicates that the iPhone is holding on to an old gateway address even when it is issued a new one via DHCP. The iPhone then proceeds to issue ARP requests to a host that will never answer, DoS'ing the network in the process. Ouch.

via Slashdot

By Chris on July 17, 2007 12:45 PM |