Hi Daniel

Don't worry, I won't shoot the messenger :-)

You raise some very good questions, to which you deserve some really answers! 
At this time, I don't have them, but you have certainly given me some food for 
thought on the matter!

Allow me to counter challenge you, pull the source code apart, see what you can 
reveal. I would be most happy to accept some feedback to expedite the next 
update.

At the very least, I will investigate, and see what I can turn up.


Thomas
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Dvořák 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:31 PM
  Subject: FreeBSD Port: arpwatch-2.1.a14


  Hi all,

  let me ask you about arpwatch. The port under FreeBSD does not support the 
important switch -p, which we can find for example in Debian Linux. This switch 
is about "don´t put to promisccuous mode", which is really needed for example 
wireless cards, where promisc kills usually the traffic on wi-fi.

  I am sorry I do not imagine how much work it is, I simple ask, is it possible 
to implement this switch (flag) ?

  In the Debian Linux, there are anothers useful flags, but of course -p is the 
most important one, here they are:

          
          (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 -p flag disables promiscuous operation.  ARP broadcasts 
get through hubs without having the interface in promiscuous mode, while sav-
         ing 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 arpwatch .  YMMV.

         (Debian) -a By default, arpwatch reports bogons (unless -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, arpwatch will report 
bogons about every IP addresses.

         (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.

         (Debian) The -u flag instructs arpwatch to drop root privileges and 
change the UID to username and GID to the primary group of username .  This is
         recommended for security reasons, but username has to have write 
access to the default directory.

         (Debian) The -R flag instructs arpwatch to restart in 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 
-r or -u flags are used.

         (Debian) The -Q flags prevents arpwatch from sending reports by mail.

         (Debian) The -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.


  Please, I just ask, do not shoot me, thanks :)

  Bye
  Daniel
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