Macof

Overview

What is it?

macof is a utility that rapidly spoofs mac addresses in order to fill up the MAC address tables of routers. This enables ARP poisoning MITM attacks, because the router can no longer keep track of which physical device corresponds to which IP address.

Also see Kali/Layer_3_Attacks#Routing_Table_Overflow

Implementation of macof to fill CAM tables: http://www.cisco.com/web/ME/exposaudi2009/assets/docs/layer2_attacks_and_mitigation_t.pdf