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diff --git a/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8 b/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c19bc30 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8 @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +.\" @(#) $Header: tcpdump.1,v 1.30 90/10/11 19:35:03 mccanne Exp $ (LBL) +.\" +.\" 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. +.\" +.TH RARPD 8 "26 Oct 1990" +.SH NAME +rarpd \- Reverse ARP Daemon +.SH SYNOPSIS +.na +.B rarpd +[ +.B \-af +] +[ +.I interface +] +.br +.ad +.SH DESCRIPTION +.LP +.I Rarpd +services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to +.I interface. +Upon receiving a request, +.Irarpd +maps the target hardware address to an IP address via its name, which +must be present in both the +.I ethers(5) +and +.I hosts(5) +databases. +If a host does not exist in both databses, the translation cannot +proceed and a reply will not be sent. + +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 +/tftpboot/\fIipaddr\fP +exists, where \fIipaddr\fP is the target IP address. + +In normal operation, +.I rarpd +forks a copy of itself and runs in +the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via +.I syslog(3). + +.SH OPTIONS +.LP +.TP +.B \-a +Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system. +If `-a' is omitted, an interface must be specified. +.TP +.B \-f +Run in the foreground. + +.SH FILES +/etc/ethers +.br +/etc/hosts +.br +/tftpboot +.SH SEE ALSO +bpf(4) +.br +RFC 903: Finlayson, R.; Mann, T.; Mogul, J.C.; Theimer, M. Reverse Address +Resolution Protocol. 1984 June; 4 p. +.SH AUTHORS +Craig Leres (leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov) and +Steven McCanne (mccanne@helios.ee.lbl.gov). +Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA. +.SH BUGS +You must have the Berkeley Packet Filter configured into your kernel +in order to use this program. This isn't really a bug, but it isn't +exactly a feature either. |