Arpwatch Tool to Monitor Ethernet Activity in Linux | Linux Today

Arpwatch Tool to Monitor Ethernet Activity in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Apr 17, 2013

Arpwatch is an open source computer software program that helps you to monitor Ethernet traffic activity (like Changing IP and MAC Addresses) on your network and maintains a database of ethernet/ip address pairings. It produces a log of noticed pairing of IP and MAC addresses information along with a timestamps, so you can carefully watch when the pairing activity appeared on the network. It also has the option to send reports via email to an network administrator when a pairing added or changed

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