Why Spoof the IP Source Address?
What is the advantage of sending a spoofed packet? It is that the sender has some kind of malicious intention and does not want to be identified. You can use the source address in the header of an IP datagram to trace the sender’s location. Most systems keep logs of Internet activity, so if attackers want to hide their identity, they need to change the source address. The host receiving the spoofed packet responds to the spoofed address, so the attacker receives no reply back from the victim host. But if the spoofed address belongs to a host on the same subnet as the attacker, then the attacker can “sniff” the reply. You can use IP spoofing for several purposes; for some scenarios an attacker might want to inspect the response from the target victim (called “nonblind spoofing”), whereas in other cases the attacker might not care (blind spoofing). Following is a discussion about reasons to spoof an IP packet.
