The ARP scanner
arp-scan uses the standard GNU automake and autoconf tools, so the typical installation process is:
- Run
git clone https://github
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.com/royhills/arp-scan.git to obtain the project source code
- Run
cd arp-scan to enter source directory
- Run
autoreconf --install to generate a viable ./configure file
- Run
./configure to generate a makefile for your system
- Run
make to build the project
- Optionally run
make check to verify that everything works as expected
- Run
make install to install (you'll need root or sudo for this part)
You will need GNU automake and autoconf, the make utility, an ANSI C compiler (for example gcc or clang), the development header files and libraries, and libpcap version 0.9 or later.
If you want to run the Perl scripts arp-fingerprint, get-oui and get-iab, you
will need to have the Perl interpreter installed. These scripts were tested
on Perl 5.8 and 5.10, but will probably run on other versions of Perl 5 as well.
In addition, for get-oui and get-iab, you will need the LWP::UserAgent Perl
module.
You can pass various options to "configure" to control the build and
installation process. See the file INSTALL for more details.
arp-scan is known to compile and run on the following platforms:
- Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- DragonflyBSD
- MacOS X
- Solaris
All platforms use libpcap (http://www.tcpdump.org/) to send the ARP packets
and receive the responses.
The only peice of the code that is implementation-specific is the function to
obtain the interface MAC address. This uses Packet Socket on Linux, BPF on
BSD and DLPI on Solaris.
The primary source of documentation is the arp-scan wiki at
http://www.nta-monitor.com/wiki/
For usage information, including details of all the options, use:
arp-scan --help
For more detailed documentation, see the manual pages: arp-scan(1),
arp-fingerprint(1), get-iab(1), get-oui(1) and mac-vendor(5).