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- Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system. If
-a is omitted, a list of interfaces 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.
-l- Log all requests to syslog(3).
-t- Only honour a request if the server (the host that
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).
- /etc/ethers
- Ethernet host name database.
- /etc/hosts
- Host name database.
R. Finlayson, T.
Mann, J. Mogul, and M.
Theimer, A Reverse Address Resolution
Protocol, RFC 903, June
1984.