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diff --git a/network_cmds/rarpd.tproj/rarpd.8 b/network_cmds/rarpd.tproj/rarpd.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39ecff6 --- /dev/null +++ b/network_cmds/rarpd.tproj/rarpd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1988-1990 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that: (1) source code distributions +.\" retain the above copyright notice and this paragraph in its entirety, (2) +.\" distributions including binary code include the above copyright notice and +.\" this paragraph in its entirety in the documentation or other materials +.\" provided with the distribution, and (3) all advertising materials mentioning +.\" features or use of this software display the following acknowledgement: +.\" ``This product includes software developed by the University of California, +.\" Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors.'' Neither the name of +.\" the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse +.\" or promote products derived from this software without specific prior +.\" written permission. +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED +.\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. +.\" @(#) $Id: rarpd.8,v 1.1 1999/05/02 03:57:59 wsanchez Exp $ +.\" +.Dd October 26, 1990 +.Dt RARPD 8 +.Sh NAME +.Nm rarpd +.Nd Reverse ARP Daemon +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm rarpd +.Op Fl adf +.Op Ar interface +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Rarpd +services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to +.Ar interface. +Upon receiving a request, +.Nm rarpd +maps the target hardware address to an IP address via its name, which +must be present in both the +.Xr ethers 5 +and +.Xr hosts 5 +databases. +If a host does not exist in both databases, the translation cannot +proceed and a reply will not be sent. +.Pp +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 +.Pa /tftpboot/ Ns Em ipaddr +exists, where +.Rm ipaddr +is the target IP address. +.Pp +In normal operation, +.Nm rarpd +forks a copy of itself and runs in +the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via +.Xr syslog 3 . +.Sh OPTIONS +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl a +Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system. +If +.Sq Fl a +is omitted, an interface must be specified. +.It Fl d +Run in debug mode, with all the output to stderr. +This option implies the +.Fl f +option. +.It Fl f +Run in the foreground. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact +.It Pa /etc/ethers +.It Pa /etc/hosts +.It Pa /tftpboot +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bpf 4 , +.Rs +.%R A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol +.%N RFC 903 +.%A Finlayson, R. +.%A Mann, T. +.%A Mogul, J.C. +.%A Theimer, M. +.Re +.Sh AUTHORS +Craig Leres (leres@ee.lbl.gov) and Steven McCanne (mccanne@ee.lbl.gov). +Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA. |