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.TH ARPWATCH 8 "8 October 2000"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
arpwatch \- keep track of ethernet/ip address pairings
.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B arpwatch
.\" **
.\" **
[
.B \-dN
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B \-f
.I datafile
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B \-i
.I interface
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -n
.IR net [/ width
]]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B \-r
.I file
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -s
.I sendmail_path
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -p
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -a
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B \-m
.I addr
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -u
.I username
]
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -R
.I seconds
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -Q
]
.\" **
.\" **
.br
.ti +8
[
.B -z
.I ignorenet/ignoremask
]
.\" **
.\" **
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Arpwatch
keeps track for ethernet/ip address pairings. It syslogs activity
and reports certain changes via email.
.B Arpwatch
uses
.BR pcap (3)
to listen for arp packets on a local ethernet interface.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
The
.B \-d
flag is used enable debugging. This also inhibits forking into the
background and emailing the reports. Instead, they are sent to
.IR stderr .
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
The
.B \-f
flag is used to set the ethernet/ip address database filename.
The default is
.IR arp.dat .
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
The
.B \-i
flag is used to override the default interface.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
The
.B \-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
.I width
is not specified, the default netmask for the network's class is used.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
The
.B \-N
flag disables reporting any bogons.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
The
.B \-r
flag is used to specify a savefile
(perhaps created by
.BR tcpdump (1)
or
.BR pcapture (1))
to read from instead
of reading from the network. In this case,
.B arpwatch
does not fork.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian) The
.B -s
flag is used to specify the path to the sendmail program.
Any program that takes the option \-odi and then text from stdin
can be substituted. This is useful for redirecting reports
to log files instead of mail.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian) The
.B -p
flag disables promiscuous operation. ARP broadcasts get through hubs without
having the interface in promiscuous mode, while saving considerable resources
that would be wasted on processing gigabytes of non-broadcast traffic. OTOH,
setting promiscuous mode does not mean getting 100% traffic that would concern
.B arpwatch .
YMMV.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian)
.B -a
By default,
.B arpwatch
reports bogons (unless
.B -N
is given) for IP addresses that are in the same subnet than the
first IP address of the default interface. If this option is
specified,
.B arpwatch
will report bogons about every IP addresses.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian) The
.B \-m
option is used to specify the e-mail address to which reports will be
sent. By default, reports are sent to
.I root
on the local machine.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian) The
.B -u
flag instructs
.B arpwatch
to drop root privileges and change the UID to
.I username
and GID to the primary group of
.I username .
This is recommended for security reasons, but
.I username
has to have write access to the default directory.
.LP
(Debian) The
.B -R
flag instructs
.B arpwatch
to restart in
.I seconds
seconds after the interface went down. By default, in such cases
arpwatch would print an error message and exit. This option is
ignored if either the
.B -r
or
.B -u
flags are used.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian) The
.B -Q
flags prevents arpwatch from sending reports by mail.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
(Debian) The
.B -z
flag is used to set a range of ip addresses to ignore (such as a DHCP
range). Netmask is specified as 255.255.128.0.
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
Note that an empty
.I arp.dat
file must be created before the first time you run
.BR arpwatch .
.\" **
.\" **
.LP
.SH "REPORT MESSAGES"
Here's a quick list of the report messages generated by
.BR arpwatch (1)
(and
.BR arpsnmp (1)):
.TP
.B "new activity"
This ethernet/ip address pair has been used for the first time six
months or more.
.TP
.B "new station"
The ethernet address has not been seen before.
.TP
.B "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.)
.TP
.B "changed ethernet address"
The host switched to a new ethernet address.
.SH "SYSLOG MESSAGES"
Here are some of the syslog messages;
note that messages that are reported are also sysloged.
.TP
.B "ethernet broadcast"
The mac ethernet address of the host is a broadcast address.
.TP
.B "ip broadcast"
The ip address of the host is a broadcast address.
.TP
.B "bogon"
The source ip address is not local to the local subnet.
.TP
.B "ethernet broadcast"
The source mac or arp ethernet address was all ones or all zeros.
.TP
.B "ethernet mismatch"
The source mac ethernet address didn't match the address inside
the arp packet.
.TP
.B "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.)
.TP
.B "suppressed DECnet flip flop"
A "flip flop" report was suppressed because one of the two
addresses was a DECnet address.
.SH FILES
.na
.nh
.nf
/var/lib/arpwatch - default directory
arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database
/usr/share/arpwatch/ethercodes.dat - vendor ethernet block list
.ad
.hy
.fi
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.na
.nh
.BR arpsnmp (8),
.BR arp (8),
.BR bpf (4),
.BR tcpdump (1),
.BR pcapture (1),
.BR pcap (3)
.ad
.hy
.SH AUTHORS
Craig Leres of the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group,
University of California, Berkeley, CA.
.LP
The current version is available via anonymous ftp:
.LP
.RS
.I ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz
.RE
.SH BUGS
Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov.
.LP
Attempts are made to suppress DECnet flip flops but they
aren't always successful.
.LP
Most error messages are posted using syslog.
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