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This is version 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 (arm64)

I have a workaround in place which involves disabling the update vendors option and using cron to run the command below on a schedule. Seems to be working fine like this. Should not be necessary though.

/usr/bin/fetch -q -o /usr/local/arpwatch http://linuxnet.ca/ieee/oui/ethercodes.dat

this is caused by the default connection timeout (5s) of the download_file() in arpwatch.inc:

function arpwatch_update_vendors() {
        download_file(ARPWATCH_ETHERCODES_URL, ARPWATCH_LOCAL_DIR."/ethercodes.dat");
}

can be fixed by setting the connection timeout to a higher value:
download_file(ARPWATCH_ETHERCODES_URL, ARPWATCH_LOCAL_DIR."/ethercodes.dat", true, 10);

no such issue with arpwatch 0.2.0 (pfSense 2.4.5, 2.5)
so it can better wait stable 2.4.5

Viktor Gurov wrote:

this is caused by the default connection timeout (5s) of the download_file() in arpwatch.inc:
[...]

can be fixed by setting the connection timeout to a higher value:
download_file(ARPWATCH_ETHERCODES_URL, ARPWATCH_LOCAL_DIR."/ethercodes.dat", true, 10);

no such issue with arpwatch 0.2.0 (pfSense 2.4.5, 2.5)
so it can better wait stable 2.4.5

That did the trick! I updated /usr/local/pkg/arpwatch.inc and it looks like it's working. Thanks! Just curious, what is the "true" before the "10" in your updated download command?

Samuel: /etc/inc/pfsense-utils.inc: function download_file($url, $destination, $verify_ssl = true, $connect_timeout = 5, $timeout = 0)

maybe they should increase a little the default if other packages is using this function

This is still a issue !!

I have all vendors as unknown.

I fix it and after a while it get broken again.

Using PFsense 2.4.5