15  arp-scan(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

15.1 arp-scan

arp-scan - ARP scanning and fingerprinting tool (ethernet, not RF).

Layer CLASSIC
Category c-01-information-gathering
Safety class safe
Licence GPL-3.0-only
Upstream github.com/royhills/arp-scan

15.1.1 NAME

arp-scan - ARP scanning and fingerprinting tool (ethernet, not RF).

15.1.2 SYNOPSIS

Not derived automatically - see upstream documentation. This page does not hand-copy flags (generation contract, ADR-0001).

15.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

arp-scan is a network scanning tool that uses the ARP protocol to discover and fingerprint IPv4 hosts on the local network. It is available for Linux, BSD, macOS and Solaris under the GPLv3 licence. This is README.md for arp-scan version 1.10.1-git. arp-scan uses the GNU automake and autoconf tools. The installation process from the latest github source is: - git clone https://github.com/royhills/arp-scan.git to obtain the latest source code. - cd arp-scan to enter the source code directory. - autoreconf --install to generate a configure file (if you don’t have autoreconf you can download a tarball instead as detailed be

15.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (4 matches, e.g. c-cpp.yml, c-cpp.yml). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

15.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14