Bug 514934

Summary:	net-analyzer/arping installs arping2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nathan Shearer <mail>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends on:	27023
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Description Nathan Shearer 2014-06-24 15:36:17 UTC

Cannot ping via MAC address. It looks like the ebuild does something unusual because when I manually compile the source from http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping I can ping via MAC address, but the version portage installs cannot.

In fact, the help output is very different. It looks like there are two versions: one written by Thomas Habets, and one maintained by Yoshifuji Hideaki. And the one in portage cannot ping via MAC address.

They are both called arping so is there a way to add the other one and change it's ebuild name in order to distinguish the two?

Comment 1 Nathan Shearer 2014-06-24 15:37:25 UTC

Note that the ebuild refers to http://www.habets.pp.se/synscan/programs.php?prog=arping But it appears to install something different

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-24 15:47:01 UTC

net-analyzer/arping installs /usr/sbin/arping2 which is what you want to use.
net-misc/iputils installs /sbin/arping which is the cause of your confusion.