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22.Dd October 26, 1990
23.Dt RARPD 8
24.Sh NAME
25.Nm rarpd
26.Nd Reverse ARP Daemon
27.Sh SYNOPSIS
28.Nm rarpd
29.Op Fl adf
30.Op Ar interface
31.Sh DESCRIPTION
32.Nm Rarpd
33services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to
34.Ar interface.
35Upon receiving a request,
36.Nm rarpd
37maps the target hardware address to an IP address via its name, which
38must be present in both the
39.Xr ethers 5
40and
41.Xr hosts 5
42databases.
43If a host does not exist in both databases, the translation cannot
44proceed and a reply will not be sent.
45.Pp
46Additionally, a request is honored only if the server
47(i.e., the host that rarpd is running on)
48can "boot" the target; that is, if the directory
49.Pa /tftpboot/ Ns Em ipaddr
50exists, where
51.Rm ipaddr
52is the target IP address.
53.Pp
54In normal operation,
55.Nm rarpd
56forks a copy of itself and runs in
57the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via
58.Xr syslog 3 .
59.Sh OPTIONS
60.Bl -tag -width indent
61.It Fl a
62Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system.
63If
64.Sq Fl a
65is omitted, an interface must be specified.
66.It Fl d
67Run in debug mode, with all the output to stderr.
68This option implies the
69.Fl f
70option.
71.It Fl f
72Run in the foreground.
73.El
74.Sh FILES
75.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
76.It Pa /etc/ethers
77.It Pa /etc/hosts
78.It Pa /tftpboot
79.El
80.Sh SEE ALSO
81.Xr bpf 4 ,
82.Rs
83.%R A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
84.%N RFC 903
85.%A Finlayson, R.
86.%A Mann, T.
87.%A Mogul, J.C.
88.%A Theimer, M.
89.Re
90.Sh AUTHORS
91Craig Leres (leres@ee.lbl.gov) and Steven McCanne (mccanne@ee.lbl.gov).
92Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.