How To Install ip-sentinel on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ip-sentinel on Fedora 36.

What is ip-sentinel

IP Sentinel is a tool that tries to prevent unauthorized usage of IP addresses within an ethernet broadcast domain by answering ARP requests. After receiving faked replies, requesting parties store the MAC in their ARP tables and will send future packets to this invalid MAC, rendering the IP unreachable.

We can use yum or dnf to install ip-sentinel on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ip-sentinel.

Install ip-sentinel on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ip-sentinel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ip-sentinel

Install ip-sentinel on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ip-sentinel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ip-sentinel

How To Uninstall ip-sentinel on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ip-sentinel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ip-sentinel

ip-sentinel Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/sysconfig/ip-sentinel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/fbd5f59a03c916474f02d3c95d6246308b4b7b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ip-sentinel.service
/usr/sbin/ip-sentinel
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel/README
/usr/share/doc/ip-sentinel/THANKS
/usr/share/man/man8/ip-sentinel.8.gz
/var/lib/ip-sentinel

References

• ip-sentinel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ip-sentinel on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).