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RARPD(8)							      RARPD(8)

NAME
       rarpd - reverse address resolution protocol daemon

SYNOPSIS
       rarpd [-v] [-i interface ]

DESCRIPTION
       Rarpd  listens on the ethernet for broadcast packets asking for reverse
       address resolution.  These packets are sent by hosts at	boot  time  to
       find  out their IP address.  Rarpd looks up the six octet ethernet num‐
       ber in the ethers map finding a host name.  This name is translated  to
       the  IP	address	 of  the host by a DNS lookup.	The IP address is then
       sent to the host.

       Before rarpd can start its service it  first  finds  out	 what  the  IP
       address and hardware address of the ethernet is.

       Warning!	  Sun  diskless workstations assume that the first RARP server
       that answers is the host they are to boot from.	For this to  work  all
       other  Sun  RARP	 servers  delay	 their answer if they are not also the
       requestors boot server.	This rarpd does not have  this	kludge	so  it
       will  happily  engage  the  Sun	boot  server to see who can answer the
       client first.  Unless your host	can  actually  serve  a	 Sun  diskless
       client, it is better not to list any more hosts in the ethers file than
       necessary.

OPTIONS
       -v     Be verbose. Show requests which the daemon is responding to.

       -i     Bind to the named interface.  By	default	 rarpd	binds  to  the
	      default interface for the local system type, if available.

SEE ALSO
       ifconfig(8), ethers(5), hosts(5),

AUTHOR
       Derrick J. Brashear (shadow@dementia.org)

       The  man	 page  is  mostly  from	 the  Minix  version,  by  Kees J. Bot
       (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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