The arpwatch package (a subpackage of tcpdump) is not included in RHEL 3AS/3ES, despite the fact that it was included in RHEL 2, and is produced upon building tcpdump-3.7.2-7.src.rpm. The release notes for RHEL 3AS/3ES do not mention why arpwatch was removed. Why was arpwatch removed? There appears to be no package that provides similar functionality (which I need).
reassigning
Again: why is arpwatch not in RHEL 3AS/3ES? Was it removed due to security concerns (a la perl-suidperl), or was there some other reason?
*** Bug 128598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It's pretty easy to rebuild the tcpdump source RPM to get this package, just grab the tcpdump SRPM from the Red Hat Network site and run "rpm --rebuild <tcpdump SRPM>" For the supremely lazy, the White Box Linux 3 (http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/) binaries work fine on Red Hat Enterprise 3: ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/arpwatch-2.1a11-7.i386.rpm -- Steve
NEEDINFO_PM status has been obsoleted. Changing status to ASSIGNED and re-assigning ownership to riek.
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