-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim,
I don't have any problems changing arp-scan to support central OUI files. Here are my thoughts: arp-scan uses autoconf/automake and by default looks for the MAC/Vendor mapping files in $(pkgdatadir). It would be simple to add an autoconf option to specify a different default location, which could be used in the debian build. arp-scan uses three MAC/Vendor mapping files: the IEEE OUI file (ieee-oui.txt), the IEEE IAB file (ieee-iab.txt) and the custom mapping file (mac-vendor.txt). I can see that the IEEE OUI and IAB files could be useful for other packages. I guess the custom mapping file may also be useful, and could be a central place to put custom MAC/Vendor mappings that are not present in either of the IEEE files. The files used by arp-scan are simplified versions of those on the IEEE website. These simplified versions are easier to parse and also take up less space. I suspect that most programs that require MAC/Vendor mappings could use these simplified file formats, but some may be better off with the original IEEE format files. I guess that the central files would be split into a separate Debian package that arp-scan would depend upon. I suppose this package could be put into debian-volatile to allow regular updates. However, the big question is whether it is worth doing. The data concerned is less than a megabyte, and other packages could make use of the get-oui and get-iab Perl scripts if they want to maintain their own lists. Please let me know if you'd like me to add a configure option to enable the default location for the MAC/Vendor mapping files to be changed. Roy Hills Tim Brown wrote: | Guys, | | As maintainer of arp-scan I recently received a bug report for this packaging | asking for oui.txt to be centrally maintained and shared between all packages | that use it. I have copied you in as you're the folk responsible for other | such packages as well as the upstream developer of arp-scan itself. | | The submitter would like to see something such as update-pciids which could be | shared between all of us. If you examine arp-scan you will notice it has two | scripts, get-iab and get-oui which would largely (with some hacking provide | the required functionality), would you be interested in making this feature | request happen? | | Tim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIOZBpy4enOlZ7nzoRAjJqAJ9dqIIKDdUALA1tZmyOdlTSBlCFPgCeL2rA 4Ww1KQnIxfdZ/9AWJHn7DIU= =C+zU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
