Comments for Arping
Re: uhm.. iputils..
> You do realize that arping is already
> part of iputils..
As another comment has pointed out, that is a less capable arping, it's not the same program.
Arping exists in debian (though currently lagging on the 1.02 version) in the package arping.
The less capable arping from iputils is now in the package iputils-arping.
Re: Awesome!
Thats because you're running /sbin/arping (which is included with iputils) instead of the version you downloaded, compiled, and installed..
>
> % An awesome little program! Great
> for
> % debugging a handful of annoying
> network
> % problems...
>
>
> Agreed. This program is quite useful.
> Unfortunately, it conflicts with
> another less capable arping program.
>
> On one of my systems, I get this:
>
> # arping -V
> arping utility, iputils-ss001007
> #
>
> instead of
>
> # arping -v
> arping 0.95 [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -r ] [ -d
> ] [ -0 ] [ -c count ]
> [ -i <interface> ]
> <host/ip/MAC>
> #
>
uhm.. iputils..
You do realize that arping is already part of iputils.. If you make any significant changes/improvments you should get them included in the iputils package.
Re: Awesome!
> An awesome little program! Great for
> debugging a handful of annoying network
> problems...
Its feature to map MAC addresses back to IP is quite
useful. Unfortunately, that only works for machines which
answer broadcast pings, i.e. not for windows machines :-(
Re: mirror
> I'm completely unable to resolve nss.nu
> right now,
It's back up, and resolving. Sorry for the inconveniance.
(servers have a tendency to go down on friday
evenings, don't they)
mirror
I'm completely unable to resolve nss.nu right now,
but after a lot of digging I managed to find this mirror
Re: Awesome!
> An awesome little program! Great for
> debugging a handful of annoying network
> problems...
Agreed. This program is quite useful. Unfortunately, it conflicts with another less capable arping program.
On one of my systems, I get this:
# arping -V
arping utility, iputils-ss001007
#
instead of
# arping -v
arping 0.95 [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -r ] [ -d ] [ -0 ] [ -c count ]
[ -i <interface> ] <host/ip/MAC>
#
Awesome!
An awesome little program! Great for debugging a handful of annoying network problems...
Re: Awesome!
> Its feature to map MAC addresses back to
> IP is quite
> useful. Unfortunately, that only works
> for machines which
> answer broadcast pings, i.e. not for
> windows machines :-(
Check out arping-scan-net.sh, included in arping. It
scans an IP network for a certain MAC address. It's only
needed for those that don't answer broadcast pings (also,
you can try the multicast IP 224.0.0.1), but when all else
fails, the script *will* find the box (unless it's actually
not answering ICMP pings).