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Arp scan

ARP scanning and fingerprinting tool

Overview

arp-scan is a command-line tool that uses the ARP protocol to discover and fingerprint IP hosts on the local network. It is available under the GPL licence (GPLv3).

Downloads

Latest Source distribution: arp-scan-1.8.tar.gz
This will compile on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS systems. You will need a C compiler, the "make" utility and the appropriate system header files to compile arp-scan. It uses autoconf and automake, so compilation and installation is the normal ./configure; make; make install process.
Previous versions of arp-scan are available at: http://www.nta-monitor.com/tools/arp-scan/archive/
If you want an older version of the arp-scan software, you can get it from here.

Documentation

The arp-scan wiki is the main source of documentation for arp-scan.

The source distribution includes the man pages arp-scan(1), arp-fingerprint(1), get-oui(1), get-iab(1) and mac-vendor(5), which contain details on the tools and file formats.

Please send any feedback to arp-scan@nta-monitor.com