A technician is troubleshooting a host that is having intermittent issues connecting to internal network resources and the company servers. Using a packet sniffer, the technician notices there are several TCP communications that are missing packets in sequence and need to be retransmitted. The technician receives several SYN-ACK packets with incorrect addressing. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of these issues?
A) DNS poisoning attack
B) Evil twin on the company network
C) ARP poisoning attack
D) Misconfigured VLAN on the local switch

Question

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An ARP poisoning attack can cause incorrect IP-to-MAC address mappings, leading to incorrect addressing in TCP communications and resulting in packet loss and retransmissions.

A Technician Is Troubleshooting a Host That Is Having Intermittent