Skip to content

Probe: arp_bogon#

Monitors ARP requests for IP addresses in non-whitelisted networks. This can be used to trigger events when the source or destination IP address in an ARP request does not belong to the connected network(s).

Inspected Packets#

This probe looks for packets with the following characteristics:

  • EtherType: ARP
  • ARP operaration (OPER): ARP request

Configuration#

probes:
  arp_bogon:
    # enable this probe
    enable: true
    # list of prefixes that are connected
    prefixes:
    - 192.0.2.0/24

See also: schema description

Events#

Name Description
ARP_BOGON_SOURCE the source IP address is not covered by prefixes
ARP_BOGON_TARGET the target IP address is not covered by prefixes

See Also#