arpalert

Description

This software is used for monitoring ethernet networks. It listens on a network interface (without using 'promiscuous' mode) and catches all conversations of MAC address to IP request. It then compares the mac addresses it detected with a pre-configured list of authorized MAC addresses. If the MAC is not in list, arpalert launches a pre-defined user script with the MAC address and IP address as parameters. This software can run in daemon mode; it's very fast (low CPU and memory consumption). It responds at signal SIGHUP (configuration reload) and at signals SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGQUIT and SIGABRT (arpalert stops itself).

Application availability

This application is available from the following Mandriva media:

cooker i586 contrib-release - View package information

2008.0 i586 contrib-release - View package information

2008.0 x86_64 contrib-release - View package information

cooker x86_64 contrib-release - View package information