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  ARP Ping   ARP Ping
   
    By Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>    By Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>
   
  http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/   http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/
  http://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping   http://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping
Line 191  A: Be my guest, but if care about security *at all* yo Line 191  A: Be my guest, but if care about security *at all* yo
    a network debugging tool, which generates low-level network packets that     a network debugging tool, which generates low-level network packets that
    ordinary users have absolutely no business generating.     ordinary users have absolutely no business generating.
   
    For example, I don't protect against an ALRM signal flood, which will result  
    in a packet flood. (arping 2.x doesn't have this issue)  
   
    If you are honestly debugging the network then I don't see why you aren't     If you are honestly debugging the network then I don't see why you aren't
    root already.     root already.
   
   If you think I'm wrong, tell me why.   That being said, on Linux you can add the CAP_NET_RAW capability to arping
    limiting the damage if arping were to be compromised:
      sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep  /usr/local/sbin/arping
    This requires a libnet which does not explicitly check for uid 0. The
    current version of libnet does check this, so unless you patch it it will
    not help.
 
    Patch:
      http://github.com/ThomasHabets/libnet/commit/aaa383b5c816107082508b7646929a9479b81645
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 Q: What's this -A switch all about, I don't understand it.  Q: What's this -A switch all about, I don't understand it.
   
Line 280  For pinging MAC addresses: Line 285  For pinging MAC addresses:
  range it searches is hard-coded.   range it searches is hard-coded.
  I may add this to arping some day, but don't hold your breath.   I may add this to arping some day, but don't hold your breath.
   
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