Same here... I´ve been seing things like this everyday, for years (Network / NetSec Support Engineer here :)) Just today: Servers with a static IP address gett

Same here... I´ve been seing things like this everyday, for years (Network / NetSec Support Engineer here :)) Just today: Servers with a static IP address getting it changed to an APIPA just because some other 3rd party device sent a unicast ARP request to it that should've been a broadcast as per RFC4436. I personally find ARP to be one of the funniest protocols out there and I love the faces people make when they understand how ARP glues L2 and L3 and suddenly everything makes sense. It is funny to see articles like this, because the network seems to be the "last frontier" for IT companies/workers. Only a handful seem to be brave enough to work on it (and actually like it). It is supposed to work like the lights when we switch them on and any interaction with a network engineer is just to tell them about an issue :) In my opinion, the network guys are the geeks among the geeks. Don't get me wrong, it is easy to understand networking, it just takes dedication.