diff --git a/net-mgmt/arpwatch/files/pkg-message.in b/net-mgmt/arpwatch/files/pkg-message.in
index 893962b88366..66fd592338ad 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/arpwatch/files/pkg-message.in
+++ b/net-mgmt/arpwatch/files/pkg-message.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 You can update the ethercodes.dat file executing the following steps
 
 cd %%PREFIX%%/arpwatch
-fetch -o- http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt | cut -b 3- > oui.txt
+fetch -o- http://standards-oui.ieee.org//oui.txt | tr -d "\15" > oui.txt
 ./massagevendor oui.txt > ethercodes.dat
 rm oui.txt