Hello,

This is an error in the howto. In the version 2, the leases file is not
directly compatible with the maclist.allow file.

you may use this little script

cat arpalert.leases | sed -e "s/[0-9]\{10\}.*$//" > maclist.allow

Thierry

> After copying the contents of arpalert.leases to maclist.allow using:
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>>>>cat /usr/local/arpalert/var/lib/arpalert/arpalert.leases >
> /usr/local/arpalert/etc/arpalert/maclist.allow
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> I receive this error when trying to start arpalert:
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>>>>arpalert: file: "/usr/local/arpalert/etc/arpalert/maclist.allow",
> line 1: flag "1208889160" not available
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> Here is the first line of the maclist.allow file:
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>>>>00:1c:23:14:0f:db 172.16.2.14 eth0 1208889160 296054
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> Thanks for your help.
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