установка arpwatch for linux

Lets first focus on the most important files that this utility installs on a CentOs box (although the concepts remain the same for all distro’s , the location of the files are slightly differently ) .ВP

Arpwatch is not by default installed on any Linux distribution , so it must be installed manually . My favorite distro is CentOs 5.x and I use yum to make the installation on my box :

or it can be sent as an email to root (althroug it can be configured to be send to other mail)

Data may be written directly to the system console

The information can be recorded in one of four ways :

outlined theВP ARP protocol , so I assume that you already know the basic concepts of communication between computers on a LANВP environmentВP . Some people are using this “communication model ” to compromise a network . Fortunately for us there are lot of utilities available to track these attacks , arpwatch is my personalВP favorite . ThisВP simple toolВP will help you watch changing IP Addresses and MAC Addresses on your network.ВP It will listВP the information with a timestamp so you can carefully watch the activity. The primary limitation of arpwatch comes from being restricted to local traffic . It is not a tool that can be used across networks . If you need to watch several networks , you will need to start arpwatch on each of those networks .

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