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.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 .