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DHCP Starvation & Spoofing
2025 · Python · Scapy · ns-3 · Network Security
Overview
A networks course project simulating DHCP starvation and spoofing attacks inside an isolated virtual lab, then measuring their impact and evaluating defences.
Scope of the work:
Scope of the work:
- Simulated DHCP starvation by exhausting the server's address pool in a controlled environment
- Implemented rogue-server spoofing to study man-in-the-middle exposure
- Quantified network disruption under each attack scenario
- Explored countermeasures including DHCP snooping and port security
My role
Developer and analyst.
- Wrote the attack simulations in Python using Scapy for packet crafting.
- Modeled the network topology and traffic behaviour in ns-3.
- Documented disruption metrics and wrote up the mitigation analysis.
- Wrote the attack simulations in Python using Scapy for packet crafting.
- Modeled the network topology and traffic behaviour in ns-3.
- Documented disruption metrics and wrote up the mitigation analysis.