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Port details
andwatch ANDwatch - Arp and Neighbor Discovery monitor
2.3.0 net-mgmt on this many watch lists=2 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 2.2.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: dennypage@me.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-03-28 11:48:11
Last Update: 2026-05-07 21:47:29
Commit Hash: 2a7c056
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License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://github.com/dennypage/andwatch
Description:
ANDwatch monitors Arp (IPV4) and Neighbor Discovery (IPv6) packets, maintains a database of IP address to hardware address (Ethernet) mappings, and issues notifications when the hardware address of an IP address changes.
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/andwatch-2.3.0/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/andwatch-2.3.0/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/andwatch-2.3.0/BSD2CLAUSE
  4. bin/andwatchd
  5. bin/andwatch-query
  6. bin/andwatch-query-ma
  7. bin/andwatch-update-ma
  8. share/andwatch/andwatch-notify.sh
  9. @dir /var/db/andwatch
  10. @owner
  11. @group
  12. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • andwatch>0:net-mgmt/andwatch
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/andwatch/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install net-mgmt/andwatch
  • pkg install andwatch
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: andwatch
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1777138653 SHA256 (dennypage-andwatch-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 01a4882d4117b38b817604ebf027880091bc4e994f9e8a47bf70d50b6fdd5c01 SIZE (dennypage-andwatch-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 20364

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
andwatch
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly-----n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest2.3.02.3.0-2.1.02.3.0---
FreeBSD:14:quarterly2.2.02.2.0-2.1.02.2.0---
FreeBSD:15:latest2.3.02.3.0n/a2.1.0n/an/a--
FreeBSD:15:quarterly2.2.02.2.0n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest2.2.02.3.0n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Library dependencies:
  1. libsqlite3.so : databases/sqlite3
  2. libcurl.so : ftp/curl
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
net-mgmt_andwatch
USES:
localbase:ldflags
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/dennypage/andwatch/tar.gz/v2.3.0?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 5

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.3.0
07 May 2026 21:47:29
commit hash: 2a7c0561200c6cf9d0c0252cd4a7ab446eca8e4acommit hash: 2a7c0561200c6cf9d0c0252cd4a7ab446eca8e4acommit hash: 2a7c0561200c6cf9d0c0252cd4a7ab446eca8e4acommit hash: 2a7c0561200c6cf9d0c0252cd4a7ab446eca8e4a files touched by this commit
Rene Ladan (rene) search for other commits by this committer
all: drop support for FreeBSD 13, mips and risc64sf

Reviewed by:            many (*)
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55624
Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55642 (merged in from bofh)

many (*)
  acm arrowd brooks cmt dch decke dinoex eduardo fluffy fuz gahr garga
  jbeich joerg jrm kai kenrap martymac matthew mfechner michaelo mizhka
  nobutaka pkubaj se tagattie thj

  Anton Saietskii
  GenericRikka
  Gert Doering
  Jan Bramkamp
  Oleh Hushchenkov
  Oleksandr Kryvulia
  Ralf van der Enden
  Yamagi

  desktop kde python tcltk office
2.3.0
27 Apr 2026 03:10:42
commit hash: 4eb1378d01f24f6d958d9a3fbf931ea3ebd77131commit hash: 4eb1378d01f24f6d958d9a3fbf931ea3ebd77131commit hash: 4eb1378d01f24f6d958d9a3fbf931ea3ebd77131commit hash: 4eb1378d01f24f6d958d9a3fbf931ea3ebd77131 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Denny Page
net-mgmt/andwatch: Update 2.2.0 => 2.3.0

Changelog:
https://github.com/dennypage/andwatch/releases/tag/v2.3.0

PR:		294818
Sponsored by:	UNIS Labs
2.2.0
04 Dec 2025 22:32:22
commit hash: f5b6f7cd0452553ac6224d52ecc82ed40a769752commit hash: f5b6f7cd0452553ac6224d52ecc82ed40a769752commit hash: f5b6f7cd0452553ac6224d52ecc82ed40a769752commit hash: f5b6f7cd0452553ac6224d52ecc82ed40a769752 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Denny Page
net-mgmt/andwatch: Update 2.1.0 => 2.2.0

Changelog:
https://github.com/dennypage/andwatch/releases/tag/v2.2.0

- Switch from libpcap.so:net/libpcap to libpcap from base.
- Use USES=localbase:ldflags instead of CFLAGS+=-I${LOCALBASE}/include
  and -LDFLAGS+=-L${LOCALBASE}/lib.
- Reduce number of INSTALL_PROGRAM calls in do-install.

PR:		291401
Co-authored-by:	Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
2.1.0
03 Apr 2025 21:24:14
commit hash: 6e430e541d0aa78cee4390aa6f3a140e90dc5a17commit hash: 6e430e541d0aa78cee4390aa6f3a140e90dc5a17commit hash: 6e430e541d0aa78cee4390aa6f3a140e90dc5a17commit hash: 6e430e541d0aa78cee4390aa6f3a140e90dc5a17 files touched by this commit
Renato Botelho (garga) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Denny Page
net-mgmt/andwatch: Mark as broken on FreeBSD 13

Does not build

PR:		285764
Reported by:	Chad Jacob Milios <milios@ccsys.com>
2.1.0
28 Mar 2025 11:45:12
commit hash: ef8919adec5cb3e4256c3421529a7bbbfbf55917commit hash: ef8919adec5cb3e4256c3421529a7bbbfbf55917commit hash: ef8919adec5cb3e4256c3421529a7bbbfbf55917commit hash: ef8919adec5cb3e4256c3421529a7bbbfbf55917 files touched by this commit
Renato Botelho (garga) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Denny Page
net-mgmt/andwatch: Add new port

ANDwatch monitors Arp (IPV4) and Neighbor Discovery (IPv6)
packets, maintains a database of IP address to hardware
address (Ethernet) mappings, and issues notifications when
the hardware address of an IP address changes.

PR:		284907

Number of commits found: 5