RARPD
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 26 Oct 1990
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NAME
rarpd - Reverse ARP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
rarpd
[
-af
]
[
interface
]
DESCRIPTION
Rarpd
services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to
interface.
Upon receiving a request,
maps the target hardware address to an IP address via its name, which
must be present in both the
ethers(5)
and
hosts(5)
databases.
If a host does not exist in both databses, the translation cannot
proceed and a reply will not be sent.
Additionally, a request is honored only if the server
(i.e., the host that rarpd is running on)
can "boot" the target; that is, if the directory
/tftpboot/ipaddr
exists, where ipaddr is the target IP address.
In normal operation,
rarpd
forks a copy of itself and runs in
the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via
syslog(3).
OPTIONS
- -a
-
Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system.
If `-a' is omitted, an interface must be specified.
- -f
-
Run in the foreground.
FILES
/etc/ethers
/etc/hosts
/tftpboot
SEE ALSO
bpf(4)
RFC 903: Finlayson, R.; Mann, T.; Mogul, J.C.; Theimer, M. Reverse Address
Resolution Protocol. 1984 June; 4 p.
AUTHORS
Craig Leres (leres@ee.lbl.gov) and
Steven McCanne (mccanne@ee.lbl.gov).
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
BUGS
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