BSD Ports

net-mgmt/arpwatch 3.8 DragonFly

Monitor arp & rarp requests

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
net-mgmt
Package size
30.5 KiB, 92.3 KiB installed

Description

This package contains tools that monitors ethernet activity and maintains a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. It also reports certain changes via email.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlynet-mgmt/arpwatch3.8
FreeBSDnet-mgmt/arpwatch3.9
OpenBSDnet/arpwatch2.1a15p21
NetBSDnet/arpwatch2.1a15nb4
HardenedBSDnet-mgmt/arpwatch3.9
GhostBSDnet-mgmt/arpwatch3.9

Install

Binary package:

pkg install arpwatch

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/net-mgmt/arpwatch && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 4

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

You can create an ethercodes.dat file by running this script:

    /usr/local/arpwatch/update-ethercodes

Here's a example crontab entry to update it every night:

    00 0 * * * root sleep `jot -r 1 0 600` ; /usr/local/arpwatch/update-ethercodes

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