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ARPWATCH(8)            DragonFly System Manager's Manual           ARPWATCH(8)

NAME
       arpwatch - keep track of ethernet/ip address pairings

SYNOPSIS
       arpwatch [ -dN ] [ -f datafile ] [ -i interface ]
               [ -m email ] [ -n net[/width ]] [ -r file ]

DESCRIPTION
       Arpwatch keeps track for ethernet/ip address pairings. It syslogs
       activity and reports certain changes via email.  Arpwatch uses pcap(3)
       to listen for arp packets on a local ethernet interface.

       The -d flag is used enable debugging. This also inhibits forking into
       the background and emailing the reports. Instead, they are sent to
       stderr.

       The -f flag is used to set the ethernet/ip address database filename.
       The default is arp.dat.

       The -i flag is used to override the default interface.

       The -m flag specifies the address that will receive the emails.  The
       default is root.

       The -n flag specifies additional local networks. This can be useful to
       avoid "bogon" warnings when there is more than one network running on
       the same wire. If the optional width is not specified, the default
       netmask for the network's class is used.

       The -N flag disables reporting any bogons.

       The -r flag is used to specify a savefile (perhaps created by
       tcpdump(1) or pcapture(1)) to read from instead of reading from the
       network. In this case, arpwatch does not fork.

       Note that an empty arp.dat file must be created before the first time
       you run arpwatch.

REPORT MESSAGES
       Here's a quick list of the report messages generated by arpwatch(1)
       (and arpsnmp(1)):

       new activity
              This ethernet/ip address pair has been used for the first time
              six months or more.

       new station
              The ethernet address has not been seen before.

       flip flop
              The ethernet address has changed from the most recently seen
              address to the second most recently seen address.  (If either
              the old or new ethernet address is a DECnet address and it is
              less than 24 hours, the email version of the report is
              suppressed.)

       changed ethernet address
              The host switched to a new ethernet address.

SYSLOG MESSAGES
       Here are some of the syslog messages; note that messages that are
       reported are also sysloged.

       ethernet broadcast
              The mac ethernet address of the host is a broadcast address.

       ip broadcast
              The ip address of the host is a broadcast address.

       bogon  The source ip address is not local to the local subnet.

       ethernet broadcast
              The source mac or arp ethernet address was all ones or all
              zeros.

       ethernet mismatch
              The source mac ethernet address didn't match the address inside
              the arp packet.

       reused old ethernet address
              The ethernet address has changed from the most recently seen
              address to the third (or greater) least recently seen address.
              (This is similar to a flip flop.)

       suppressed DECnet flip flop
              A "flip flop" report was suppressed because one of the two
              addresses was a DECnet address.

FILES
       /usr/local/arpwatch - default directory
       arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database
       ethercodes.dat - vendor ethernet block list

SEE ALSO
       arpsnmp(8), arp(8), bpf(4), tcpdump(1), pcapture(1), pcap(3)

AUTHORS
       Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network
       Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

       The current version is available via anonymous ftp:

              ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz

BUGS
       Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov.

       Attempts are made to suppress DECnet flip flops but they aren't always
       successful.

       Most error messages are posted using syslog.

4th Berkeley Distribution       8 October 2000                     ARPWATCH(8)