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wmfyesterday at 11:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

There are recent "client isolation" features that prevent P2P communication. Some hosting providers also block customers on the same LAN from attacking each other.


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jrockwayyesterday at 11:25 PM

Indeed. You might share a subnet with other customers of your ISP, but your ISP probably doesn't let you ARP poison them.

This isn't even that recent. I remember doing ARP poisoning exactly once and then being surprised that it didn't work everywhere.

I think the falsehood here is that same IPv4 subnet = same link layer network, but that doesn't have to be the case.

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jrockwayyesterday at 11:24 PM

Indeed. You might share a subnet with other customers of your ISP, but your ISP probably doesn't let you ARP poison them.

This isn't even that recent. I remember doing ARP poisoning exactly once and then being surprised that it didn't work everywhere.