Very simple wrapper for using and parsing output from arp-scan.

You will need to make sure arp-scan is installed. See the arp-scan homepage at http://www.nta-monitor.com/tools/arp-scan/

You'll also need superuser privileges to run arp-scan, you have have a few options but be sure to understand what you're doing before you do it:

• Edit /etc/sudoers to allow user to run arp-scan as root without a password.

  user host = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/arp-scan

• Set the SUID bit on the arp-scan bin:

  sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/arp-scan

• Run your Ruby code as root (I wouldn't do this)

I use the SUID method but if you have other people logging into your machine you should probably go with the /etc/sudoers method.

There are some tests now, but output containing host names instead of IP addresses will not be properly parsed. This might be fixed soon.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

From GitHub:

gem 'arp_scan', :git => 'git://github.com/mikerodrigues/arp_scan.git'

From RubyGems:

gem 'arp_scan'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install arp_scan

No argument parsing is done by the gem, it takes the same arguments as arp-scan and just passes them to the binary. The result is returned as a ScanReport object which makes it easy to iterate through hosts as well as see metainfo about the scan itself.

Scanning is easy:

require 'arp_scan'

report = ARPScan('--localnet')

report.datalink 	=> "EN10MB (Ethernet)"
report.interface 	=> "eth0"
report.range_size 	=> 256
report.reply_count 	=> 2
report.scan_rate 	=> 169.99 # hosts/sec
report.scan_time 	=> 1.586 # seconds
report.version 		=> "1.8.1" # arp-scan version
report.arguments	=> "--localnet"

Each ScanReport also holds zero or more Host objects representing founds hosts:

first_host = report.hosts.first
first_host.ip_addr 	=> '10.0.0.1'
first_host.mac 	=> '00:11:22:33:44:55'
first_host.oui 	=> "NIC Manufacturer"

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/mikerodrigues/arp_scan/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request