Arp-scan Desired New Features

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This page contains a list of the desired features for future versions of arp-scan. Please add proposals for new features to the discussion page.

Features Implemented in SVN

The following features have been implemented in the SVN copy of arp-scan, but not yet formally released. Unfortunately the SVN version is not publicly available, but it may become available in the future.

No new features since the release of arp-scan 1.7 in July 2008.

Features on the To-Do List

The following features are on my To-Do list. This list comes from the TODO file, which is part of the arp-scan distribution.

  • Code tidy up: reduce the number of global variables.
  • Additional ARP fingerprinting options, e.g. arpsha != srcaddr.
  • Some OSes, e.g. OpenBSD and NetBSD, don't run man pages through tbl.
  • Why does darwin 7.9 not have prototypes for pcap_datalink_val_to_name(), pcap_datalink_val_to_description() and pcap_setnonblock() even though the pcap library contains these functions? arp-scan compiles with warnings, but runs OK.
  • Add support for win32 common link-layer implementation.
  • Alter the shebang line for the Perl scripts if /usr/bin/perl doesn't exist, but there is a Perl in one of the other standard locations. This is mainly for NetBSD where pkg_add installs Perl as /usr/pkg/bin/perl and doesn't make /usr/bin/perl a symlink to this.
  • Add support for Token Ring.
  • Support the libpcap sending function pcap_sendpacket() or pcap_inject() when they are supported by the pcap library.
  • Use pcap_get_selectable_fd() to get the file descriptor for select() where possible.
  • Investigate response packets >60 bytes long.
  • Review verbose levels, and what gets displayed.
  • Investigate ARP trailer negotiation, as defined in RFC1122 section 2.3.1.
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