.Dd 8 November 2020

.Dt ARP2ETHERS 8

.Sh NAME

.Nm arp2ethers

.Nd convert arpwatch address database to ethers file format

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.Nm

.Sh DESCRIPTION

.Nm

converts file

.Ar arp.dat

in the current directory into

.Xr ethers 5

format on

.Ar stdout .

Usually

.Ar arp.dat

is an ethernet/ip database file generated by

.Xr arpwatch 8 .

The

.Xr arpwatch 8

daemon will create different

.Ar arp.dat

depending on its configuration, i.e., the

.Fl f

flag.

All of them will be available at

.Ar /var/lib/arpwatch .

.Sh FILES

.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/lib/arpwatch" -compact

.It Pa /var/lib/arpwatch

default directory

.It Pa arp.dat

default ethernet/ip address database

.Sh "SEE ALSO"

.Xr arpwatch 8 ,

.Xr ethers 5 ,

.Xr rarp 8 ,

.Xr arp 8

.Sh AUTHORS

.An Craig Leres

of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group,

University of California, Berkeley, CA.

.Pp

The current version is available via anonymous ftp:

.Pp

.Dl Ar ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz

.Pp

This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann and modified by Benjamin

Beasley.

.Sh BUGS

Please send bug reports to

.Aq arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov .