Bug 85389
| Summary: | arpwatch does not correctly determine vendor information for ethernet nics | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ken Snider <ksnider> |
| Component: | tcpdump | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-02-05 15:56:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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really strange :) does it work with the current arpwatch? Seems to! :) |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Description of problem: Just started arpwatch on my network, noticed the following: hostname: dwsp-10-0-0-21-tor-dcn.dw ip address: 10.0.0.21 ethernet address: 0:3:ba:5:19:50 ethernet vendor: <unknown> timestamp: Friday, February 28, 2003 22:56:04 +0000 That record *is* in ethercodes.dat: [root@common arpwatch]# cat ethercodes.dat | grep '0:3:ba' 0:3:ba Sun Microsystems ..and the file itslef is readable by arpwatch: [root@common arpwatch]# ls -l ethercodes.dat -r--r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 186208 Feb 28 23:03 ethercodes.dat Further, only *some* vendor ID's are not decoded. Others are decoded just fine. ??? :) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install arpwatch rpm 2. /etc/init.d/arpwatch start 3. ping server with host with the above mac vendor Actual Results: <unknown> as vendor Expected Results: Sun Microsystems as vendor