RARPD(8) | System Manager's Manual | RARPD(8) |
rarpd
— reverse
ARP daemon
rarpd |
[-adflt ] if0
[... ifN] |
rarpd
services Reverse ARP requests on the
Ethernet connected to the specified interfaces. 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.
In normal operation, rarpd
forks a copy of
itself and runs in the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via
syslog(3).
The options are as follows:
-a
-a
is omitted, a list of interfaces must be
specified.-d
-f
option.-f
-l
-t
rarpd
is running on) can "boot" the
target; that is, if a file or directory called
/tftpboot/ipaddr exists, where
ipaddr is the target IP address expressed in
uppercase hexadecimal (only the first 8 characters of filenames are
checked).R. Finlayson, T. Mann, J. Mogul, and M. Theimer, A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol, RFC 903, June 1984.
Craig Leres <leres@ee.lbl.gov> and Steven McCanne <mccanne@ee.lbl.gov>, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
October 28, 2015 | OpenBSD-current |