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:

              ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/arpwatch.tar.gz

       This manual page was contributed by Hugo Graumann.

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