Hi, Being a long time user of arpwatch I've stumbled upon this one. [...] > Current arpwatch maintainer will be in the Uploaders field as per > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2007/09/msg00037.html together with Anibal. > Both are Cc:ed on this ITP. [...] > Description : Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor, based on arpwatch > > Description: Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor > Arpwatch-ng contains arpwatch and arpsnmp. Both utilities monitor Ethernet or > FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address pairs, and > can report certain changes. It is based upon the original arpwatch package, > improving its behaviour on 64bits hosts. > [...] Two things worry me here: 1. Quoting Aníbal from the message the URL of which you gave above: "Yes, I've been aware of arpwatch-ng and was thinking about changing arpwatch upstream soruce to arpwatch-ng's." Why isn't this approach being pursued? 2. The description a) seems to indicate that arpwatch-ng just has a few 64bit patches that were best integrated into arpwatch anyhow; b) makes me simply wonder what "improving" means, as I'm running it on 64bit systems just fine!? Thanks a lot, Michael PS.: Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to this bug report.
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