SEND_ARP(8)

💖 SEND_ARP(8) 💖

System Manager's Manual ✨ — yes bestie, it's an 8, we're in admin territory now 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

send_arp — sends out one ARP packet, with the source/target IP and Ethernet hardware addresses you supply. That's it. One packet. She's a one-hit wonder and she knows it 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

send_arp sndr_ip_addr sndr_hw_addr targ_ip_addr targ_hw_addr [src_int [src_hw_addr [dest_hw_addr]]]

look at those optional brackets nesting like little matryoshka dolls, we love a layered queen 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so, send_arp sends out one ARP packet, and the source/target IP addresses and the Ethernet hardware addresses all come straight from you, the user. No guessing, no auto-detecting, no vibes-based networking. You hand it the info,<|place_holder_mm_span_0442|> it fires off exactly one packet. 🌈

It compiles and works on Linux, and it will probably work on any Unix that has SOCK_PACKET. Probably!! That's the energy we're working with. 🫶

The whole idea behind this program is a proof of concept — nothing more, bestie. Not a tool, not a framework, a concept. It comes as is, no warranty. 😭

However!! You are allowed to use it, under exactly one (1) condition: you must use your brain simultaneously. 🧠✨ That's the deal. That's the whole deal. If that condition is not met, you shall forget about this program entirely and go RTFM immediately. I said what I said. 💀

fr fr though — brain on, always. The program is a concept; the brain is the safety rail.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• sndr_ip_addr — the Sender IP address for the ARP packet. Who's sending? This one. 💌
• sndr_hw_addr — the Sender Hardware address for the ARP packet. The sender's layer-2 glow-up. ✨
• targ_ip_addr — the Target IP address for the ARP packet. Who we're talking to, IP-wise. 🎯
• targ_hw_addr — the Target Hardware address for the ARP packet. Same target, hardware edition. 🦋
• src_int — the Source Interface for the ARP packet. Which interface it's leaving from. 🚪
• src_hw_addr — the Source layer2 Hardware address for the ARP packet. Layer 2 specifically, don't get it twisted. 💅
• dest_hw_addr — the Destination layer2 Hardware address for the ARP packet. Where it's headed, layer 2, once again. 🌸

💜 AUTHORS 💜

• send_arp — Yuri Volobuev <volobuev@t1.chem.umn.edu>
• man page — Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
• layer2 patch — Patrick Koppen <patrick@koppen.de>

three absolute icons carrying this entire manual page on their backs, we stan 👑💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's from way back on 30th October 2003, out of the System Manager's Manual — send it to your group chat, go use your brain, and don't @ me unless you've already RTFM 🎀✨🦋