arping for Debian ----------------- There are two different arping series from Thomas Habets: 1.xx and 2.xx. The original source contains both versions, however this binary package contains only the 2.xx series by this time. Root privileges are needed to run arping. It can be made permanently setuid by using dpkg-statoverride, but beware it's a potential security hole. In /usr/share/doc/arping/examples you have also a network/ip-up.d script that uses arping to check for IP duplicates after bringing up the interface. If the IP we're bringing up is already taken, this brings the interface down. If you want this check: cp /usr/share/doc/arping/examples/arping.default /etc/default/arping cp /usr/share/doc/arping/examples/arping.if-up /etc/network/if-up.d/arping By default it is disabled, edit /etc/default/arping to enable this feature. -- Giuseppe Iuculano Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:30:00 +0200.