This is a very naive solution to the ARP poisoning problem, however, there are more sophisticated solutions such as ARPon (ARP handler inspection) which is a Host-based solution that make the ARP standardized protocol secure in order to avoid the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through the ARP spoofing, ARP cache poisoning or ARP poison routing attack.  

Denial of service

In this section we discuss the effect of a denial of service attack launched by VM1 on VM2.

Attack Effect 

We launch a DoS attack using VM1 on VM@ which runs a simple HTTP server  as shown in the following figure: