ARP Enhancement to Stateful Protocol by Registering ARP Request

Networking has become an essential factor in daily life and activities where the major problem in network security is the safety of the transfer information. The infrastructure for the networking is the TCP/IP suite, and the address resolution protocol is the core part of the standard which maps the logical address into a physical address. Address resolution protocol is defined as a stateless protocol in the network standard. Cache poisoning attacks target the address resolution protocol mapping to redirect the network traffic to the attacker machine, while the spoofing attack is an initialization phase for other attacks such as man-in-the-middle and denial of service attacks. The proposal in this paper is to defeat cache poisoning attacks by discarding the unregister reply, in other words, to enhance the address resolution protocol to become a stateful protocol and send a request based on the number of fake attacker replies received. The suggested address resolution protocol enhancement is examined and implemented in Linux kernel.