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+addrwatch (arp traffic montor)
+
+This is a tool similar to arpwatch. It main purpose is to monitor a
+network and log discovered ethernet/ip pairings.
+
+Main features of addrwatch:
+
+* IPv4 and IPv6 address monitoring
+* Monitoring multiple network interfaces with one daemon
+* Monitoring of VLAN tagged (802.1Q) packets.
+* Output to stdout, plain text file, syslog, sqlite3 db, MySQL db
+* IP address usage history preserving output/logging
+
+NOTE:
+
+There is a disparity between features listed in the manual and via
+--help.