kenotaph-daemon (1.0.0)

kenotaph-daemon 1.0.0

kenotaph-daemon is a tool for detecting a presence of network devices through means of a packet capture. Both Wired and Wireless networks are supported, assuming appropriate hardware is available. Targeted device is identified by a user defined Berkeley Packet Filter, either by its IP address or Hardware address, however the use of BPF allows for higher complexity. A packet capture is done in promiscuous mode, and/or in monitor mode. kenotaph-daemon is designed to be a 'daemon' program that runs in the background. To communicate with other processes, a TCP/IP socket is opened on a defined port bound to a hostname. When a targeted device becomes present on a network, or becomes absent, a notification message is sent to all consumers connected to the socket.