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24 .Nd Reverse ARP Daemon
34 services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to
36 Upon receiving a request,
38 maps the target hardware address to an IP address via its name, which
39 must be present in both the
44 If a host does not exist in both databases the translation cannot
45 proceed and a reply will not be sent.
47 .\" Additionally, a request is honored only if the server
48 .\" (the host that rarpd is running on)
49 .\" can `boot' the target.
51 .\" To be considered able to boot the target the server must have
52 .\" a file or directory
53 .\" .Pa /tftpboot/ Ns Em ipaddr
56 .\" is the target IP address as an eight digit hexadecimal string.
57 .\" For example, the IP address 203.8.3.18 is represented as
62 forks a copy of itself and runs in
63 the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via
66 .Bl -tag -width indent
68 Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system.
71 is omitted, an interface must be specified.
73 Run in debug mode, with all the output to stderr.
74 This option implies the
78 Run in the foreground.
80 Log all requests to syslog.
83 .Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
91 .%R A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
99 Craig Leres (leres@ee.lbl.gov) and Steven McCanne (mccanne@ee.lbl.gov).
100 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.