bihourly(8) [debian man page]

BIHOURLY(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       BIHOURLY(8)

NAME

       bihourly - track ethernet/ip address pairs

SYNOPSIS

       bihourly

DESCRIPTION

       bihourly is a script that automates the operation of arpsnmp(8) by executing arpfetch(8) on a series of hostnames and then sending the
       results to arpsnmp(8) for analysis.

       The result is a report of the current pairings between ip addresses and the corresponding ethernet address of the network hardware as
       reported by snmpwalk(8).  Activity is logged and noted changes are reported by email.

       In its working directory bihourly expects a file named list which contains a space separated list of hostnames to be queried and a file
       named cname which holds the SNMP community name by which to query these hosts.

       Contrary to the name, bihourly does not run twice every hour. It runs once each time it is invoked. For repeated operation bihourly must be
       invoked on a periodic basis by a program like cron(1).

FILES

       /var/lib/arpwatch - default working directory
       list - file containing names of hosts to query
       cname - file containing the SNMP community name by which to query

SEE ALSO

       arpsnmp(8), arpfetch(8), snmpwalk(8), cron(8)

BUGS

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

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

       This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann.

																       BIHOURLY(8)

ARPSNMP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							ARPSNMP(8)

NAME

       arpsnmp - keep track of ethernet/ip address pairings

SYNOPSIS

       arpsnmp [ -d ]
	       [ -f datafile ]
	       [ -s sendmail_path ]
	       [ -m addr ]
	       file [ ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       Arpsnmp keeps track for ethernet/ip address pairings. It syslogs activity and reports certain changes via email.  Arpsnmp reads information
       from a file (usually generated by snmpwalk(8)).

       The -d flag is used enable debugging. This also inhibits mailing 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.

       (Debian) The -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.

       (Debian)  The  -m  option is used to specify the e-mail address to which reports will be sent.  By default, reports are sent to root on the
       local machine.

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

REPORT MESSAGES

       (See the arpwatch(1) man page for details on the report messages generated by arpsnmp(1).)

FILES

       /var/lib/arpwatch - default directory
       arp.dat - ethernet/ip address database
       /usr/share/arpwatch/ethercodes.dat - vendor ethernet block list

SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), snmpwalk(8), arp(8)

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.

4th Berkeley Distribution					 17 September 2000							ARPSNMP(8)