A DHCP starvation attack works by broadcasting DHCP requests with spoofed MAC addresses. If enough requests are sent, the network attacker can exhaust the address space available to the DHCP servers for a period of time. This is a simple resource starvation attack just like a synchronization (SYN) flood attack. Network attackers can then set up a rogue DHCP server on their system and respond to new DHCP requests from clients on the network