arping - Ping <address> on device <interface> by ARP pack
ets, using source address <source>.
SYNOPSIS
arping [ -D ] [ -U ] [ -A ] [ -c count ] [ -w timeout ] [
-q ] [ -s source ] -I interface address
DESCRIPTION
Ping <address> on device <interface> by ARP packets, using
source address <source>.
OPTIONS
-c count
number of pings.
-w timeout
stop after this time.
-q do not print any messages.
-D duplicate address detection mode. Returns 0, if
DAD suceeded i.e. no replies are received.
-U Unsolicited ARP mode to update neighbours' ARP
caches.
-A The same as -U , but ARP REPLY packets used instead
of ARP REQUEST.
If -s option is absent, source address is:
1. In normal mode calculated from routing tables.
2. In DAD (-D) mode set to 0.0.0.0 3. In
Unsilicited ARP mode (-U,-A) set to <address>
WARNING
GENERAL NOTE: all these applets, except for tracepath[6]
should be excecutabel only with CAP_NET_RAWIO capability.
To all that I know, they are safe to be used as setuid
root.
AUTHOR
arping was written by Alexey Kuznetsov
<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
BUGS
If someone will dig out bugs, which were fixed after my
versions were cloned: PLEASE, tell me!
AVAILABILITY
arping is part of the iputils-ss990107 package and is
available for anonymous ftp <ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-rout
ing/iputils-ss990107.tar.gz>
ping(8), clockdiff(8), tracepath(8)
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