Monitoring with ARPWatch

ARPWatch is a daemon that watches for new Ethernet interfaces on a network. If a new ARP entry is seen, it could be indicative of a rogue computer somewhere within the network.

ARPWatch uses the PCap library, which may not (yet) be on your system. If it's not, you'll find out during the configuration process for ARPWatch. The PCap library, commonly known as libpcap, can be downloaded from http://www.tcpdump.org/. The PCap library is used for other network and security-related programs such as TCPDump. Because TCPDump was already covered, I'll forego repeating the instructions for installing libpcap in this chapter and instead I'll refer you to the section “TCPDump: A Simple Overview” for those instructions.

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