NAME
rarpd – Reverse ARP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
rarpd [-adf] [interface]
DESCRIPTION
Rarpd services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to interface. Upon receiving a request, rarpd 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 databases, 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 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.
- -d
-
Run in debug mode, with all the output to stderr. This option implies the -f option.
- -f
-
Run in the foreground.
FILES
- /etc/ethers
- /etc/hosts
- /tftpboot
SEE ALSO
bpf(4), Finlayson, R., Mann, T., Mogul, J.C., and Theimer, M., A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol, RFC 903.
AUTHORS
Craig Leres ([email protected]) and Steven McCanne ([email protected]). Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.