NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     rarpd -- reverse ARP daemon

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     rarpd -a [-dfsv] [-t directory]
     rarpd [-dfsv] [-t directory] interface

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     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 databases,
 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 background.
  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.

     -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
	     respond to RARP requests, but use an alternate directory for IP
	     checking.

     -v      Enable verbose syslogging.

FILES    [Toc]    [Back]

     /etc/ethers
     /etc/hosts
     /tftpboot

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     bpf(4)

     Finlayson, R., Mann, T., Mogul, J.C., and Theimer, M., RFC 903: Reverse
     Address Resolution Protocol, June 1984, 4 p.

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     Craig Leres <[email protected]> and Steven McCanne <[email protected]>.
     Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

     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 5.2.1		       November 16, 2001		 FreeBSD 5.2.1