NAME¶
arpfetch - obtain ethernet/ip address pairings via snmp
SYNOPSIS¶
arpfetch
host cname
DESCRIPTION¶
arpfetch gets pairings between ip addresses and the ethernet address of
the corresponding network card. These pairings are retrieved from other
network entities, like routers, by the SNMP protocol using
snmpwalk(1).
Mostly, this program is an agent that is used to get data for
arpsnmp(8). This fetching of address mappings can be further automated
by use of
bihourly(8).
Both command arguments must be present for proper operation. The
host
argument is the hostname of the network entity being queried and the
cname argument is the SNMP community name of the network entity.
The information is presented on
stdout in a format compatible with
arpsnmp(8) and
arpwatch(8).
Further information about SNMP can be found in
snmpcmd(1) and
variables(5).
SEE ALSO¶
arpsnmp(8),
arpwatch(8), bihourly(8),
snmpwalk(1),
snmpcmd(1),
variables(5)
BUGS¶
Please send bug reports to arpwatch@ee.lbl.gov.
AUTHORS¶
Craig Leres of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Network Research Group,
University of California, Berkeley, CA.
The current version is available via anonymous ftp:
This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann.