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RARPD(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual RARPD(8) NAME rarpd -- reverse ARP daemon SYNOPSIS rarpd -a [-dfsv] [-t directory] [-P pidfile] rarpd [-dfsv] [-t directory] [-P pidfile] interface DESCRIPTION The rarpd utility services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to interface. 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 data- bases, the translation cannot proceed and a reply will not be sent. By default, a request is honored only if the server (i.e., the host that rarpd is running on) can "boot" the target; that is, a file or directory matching the glob /tftpboot/ipaddr* exists, where ipaddr is the target IP address in hex. For example, the IP address 204.216.27.18 will be replied to if any of /tftpboot/CCD81B12, /tftpboot/CCD81B12.SUN3, or /tftpboot/CCD81B12-boot exist. This requirement can be overridden with the -s flag (see below). In normal operation, rarpd forks a copy of itself and runs in the back- ground. Anomalies and errors are reported via syslog(3). The following options are available: -a Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system. If -a is omitted, an interface must be specified. -d If -f is also specified, rarpd logs messages to stdout and stderr instead of via syslog(3). -f Run in the foreground. -P Specify the pathname of the PID file. If not specified, /var/run/rarpd.pid or /var/run/rarpd.ifname.pid will be used de- pending on the -a flag or the specified interface name. -s Supply a response to any RARP request for which an ethernet to IP address mapping exists; do not depend on the existence of /tftpboot/ipaddr*. -t Supply an alternate tftp root directory to /tftpboot, similar to the -s option of tftpd(8). This permits rarpd to selectively re- spond to RARP requests, but use an alternate directory for IP checking. -v Enable verbose syslogging. FILES /etc/ethers /etc/hosts /tftpboot /var/run/rarpd.pid SEE ALSO bpf(4) Finlayson, R., Mann, T., Mogul, J.C., and Theimer, M., RFC 903: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol, June 1984, 4 p. AUTHORS Craig Leres <leres@ee.lbl.gov> and Steven McCanne <mccanne@ee.lbl.gov>. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA. BUGS The rarpd utility can depend on the DNS to resolve the name discovered from /etc/ethers. If this name is not in the DNS but is in /etc/hosts, the DNS lookup can cause a delayed RARP response, so in this situation it is recommended to configure nsswitch.conf(5) to read /etc/hosts first. FreeBSD 13.0 July 9, 2012 FreeBSD 13.0
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