NAME
rarpd —
Reverse ARP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
rarpd |
[-adfl]
[interface
[...]] |
DESCRIPTION
rarpd 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 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).
OPTIONS
-
-
- -a
- Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system. If
‘-a’ is omitted, an interface 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.
FILES
- /etc/ethers
-
- /etc/hosts
-
SEE ALSO
bpf(4),
ethers(5),
hosts(5)
Finlayson, R., Mann,
T., Mogul, J.C., and
Theimer, M., A Reverse Address
Resolution Protocol, RFC 903.
AUTHORS
Craig Leres
<
leres@ee.lbl.gov> and
Steven McCanne
<
mccanne@ee.lbl.gov>.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.