arpfetch(8) [debian man page]

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

NAME

       arpfetch - obtain ethernet/ip address pairings via snmp

SYNOPSIS

       arpfetch host cname

DESCRIPTION

       arpfetch gets pairings between ip addresses and the ethernet address of the corresponding network card. These pairings are retrieved from
       other network entities, like routers, by the SNMP protocol using snmpwalk(1).  Mostly, this program is an agent that is used to get data
       for arpsnmp(8).	This fetching of address mappings can be further automated by use of bihourly(8).

       Both command arguments must be present for proper operation.  The host argument is the hostname of the network entity being queried and the
       cname argument is the SNMP community name of the network entity.

       The information is presented on stdout in a format compatible with arpsnmp(8) and arpwatch(8).

       Further information about SNMP can be found in snmpcmd(1) and variables(5).

SEE ALSO

       arpsnmp(8), arpwatch(8), bihourly(8), snmpwalk(1), snmpcmd(1), variables(5)

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.

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

NAME

       massagevendor - convert the ethernet vendor codes master list to arpwatch format

SYNOPSIS

       massagevendor vendorfile

DESCRIPTION

       massagevendor is a program that converts a text file containing ethernet vendor codes into a format suitable for use by arpwatch(8) and
       arpsnmp(8).  The input vendorfile is a master text file containing vendor codes. The output is sent to stdout.  Each line of the vendorfile
       is expected to have a six digit hexadecimal vendor code followed by spaces followed by the name of the manufacturer.

       All ethernet devices have a unique identifier which includes a vendor code specifying the manufacturer of the device. In normal operation
       arpwatch(8) and arpsnmp(8) use the file ethercodes.dat to report this vendor code.  massagevendor is used to generate the ethercodes.dat
       file from text files containing these vendor codes.

       Locations where an ethernet vendor codes master text file can be obtained are given below.

FILES

       /usr/share/arpwatch - default location of the ethernet vendor list
       ethercodes.dat - file containing the list of ethernet vendor codes

SEE ALSO

       arpwatch(8), arpsnmp(8)

NOTES

       Sources for ethernet vendor codes seen in the wild are

	      http://map-ne.com/Ethernet/vendor.html
	      ftp://ftp.cavebear.com/pub/Ethernet.txt
	      http://www.cavebear.com/CaveBear/Ethernet/vendor.html

       Useful for comparison or completeness are the
       ethernet vendor codes as assigned
       by the IEEE which can be found at

	      http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt

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.

																  MASSAGEVENDOR(8)