arpoison-0.7 Files

December 21st, 2025 - an upgrade to the arpoison 0.6 Project by S. Buer
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The original project by S. Buer could not fulfill my needs so I completely
rewrote it, including arpoison, lookup, the man page and the Makefile. This
new version is labeled 0.7.

The Libnet library is still required to build and to run arpoison.

Major changes and updates
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- Source code revamped to clean it and to make it more RFC5227-friendly.
- arpoison is still able to "poison" an ARP cache, but it is now able to:
  * broadcast ARP Probe and ARP Announce packets (RFC5227);
  * send ARP Requests to either a specific MAC address or the broadcast
    MAC address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). This has been implemented by a new
    command line option, namely -b. In the 0.6 version, the Ethernet packet
    encapsulating the ARP packet was sent to the target MAC address specified
    in the ARP packet. Option -b now allows the user to choose the destination
    of the Ethernet packet.
- man page completely rewritten and updated, shipped in the .gz format
  required by /usr/share/man/man8 (at least on Debian/Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi
  systems). This man page gives usage examples.
- Makefile rewritten and updated. A 'make' now produces and strips arpoison
  and lookup programs. 'make clean' (deletes arpoison and lookup) , 'make
  install' and 'make uninstall' are also available.
- Calls to C API atoi() have been replaced by calls to the stronger strtoul()
  API call, thus securing numeric parameters parsing.

The whole project is Open Source, feel free to do whatever you want with it.

Have fun !