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Abstract

Today, Internet is playing a major role for providing education in institutions to increase productivity in industries. To provide flexibilities and reliabilities in internet services, different network components are used. DHCP server is one of the components, used to assign IP addresses to client dynamically. Increasing the number of end machines not only provide benefit to organization but also make those susceptible to attack. Denial of Service attack is one of the common forms of attack used to prevent services to end users/ machine. This paper presents a way to perform DHCP Denial of Service attack using VMware Workstation. It also focuses the counter measures to prevent this attack.