rarpd - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) daemon


SYNOPSIS

       rarpd [-aAvde] [-b bootdir ] [ interface ]


DESCRIPTION

       Rarpd  is  a daemon which responds to RARP requests.  RARP
       is used by some machines at boot time to discover their IP
       address.   They  provide  their Ethernet address and rarpd
       responds with their IP address  if  it  finds  it  in  the
       ethers  database  (either /etc/ethers file or NIS+ lookup)
       and using DNS lookup if ethers database contains  a  host­
       name  and not an IP address.  By default rarpd also checks
       if a bootable image with  a  name  starting  with  the  IP
       address in hexadecimal uppercase letters is present in the
       TFTP boot directory (usually /tftpboot ) before it decides
       to respond to the RARP request.


OPTIONS

       -a     Do not bind to the interface.

       -A     Respond to ARP as well as RARP requests.

       -v     Tell the user what is going on by being verbose.

       -d     Debugging mode. Do not detach from the tty.

       -e     Skip  the check for bootable image in the TFTP boot
              directory. If not present, then even if the  Ether­
              net  address  is present in the ethers database but
              the bootable image for the  resolved  IP  does  not
              exist, rarpd will not respond to the request.

       -b bootdir
              Use bootdir instead of the default /tftpboot as the
              TFTP boot directory for bootable image checks.


OBSOLETES

       This rarpd obsoletes kernel rarp daemon present  in  Linux
       kernels up to 2.2 which was controlled by the rarp(8) com­
       mand.


FILES

       /etc/ethers,
       /etc/nsswitch.conf,
       /tftpboot


SEE ALSO

       ethers(5)


AUTHORS

       Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
       Jakub Jelinek, <jakub@redhat.com>


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