I have heard of a utility called arpwatch. It is a daemon
I know arpwatch comes with some Linux distributions.
I thought of arpwatch but dismissed it for two
reasons:
- It does not come "standard" everywhere
which in my mind is a minor reason to not include
it.
- Because as you pointed out it is a daemon and not
a CLI utility (IIRC) it isn't much use to a Perl programmer.
There are other utilities as well such as tcpdump
and snoop but I think they aren't what the OP had
in mind either.
If what you are after is to take an ETHERNET address
and convert it to an IP address "right now" then
none of the utilites such as snoop, arpwatch
or tcpdump are going to be of much use.
Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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