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From:
Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
Subject:
[new] net/neighbot 0.3.0
To:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:00:27 +0100

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Hello,

Here is a new port for neighbot.

This is a network neighbor monitoring daemon.

It acts about the same as arpwatch but has some key differences:
- Support for IPv6 via NDP
- Active probing — distinguishes "device moved" from "device has 
multiple IPs" by probing old addresses
- Multi-interface in one process
- Bogon detection which can flag IPs outside local subnets
- Uses pledge and unveil after dropping privileges

It needs its own user in /usr/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list:
904 _neighbot            _neighbot       net/neighbot

The OUI file is deliberately fetched at make time because it could 
change and build would break because of a change with older distinfo. 
But if you have another idea, I am open.

Best Regards