Description: Manual page rarpd(8).
 The manual page rarpd(8) is missing in the source
 archive but exists as adocument of the same authors.
Authors: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Comment: Recovered from rarpd_0.981107-4.
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2000-04-07

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+.TH RARP 8 "7 April 2000" "rarpd" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+rarpd \- Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) daemon
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B "rarpd [-aAvde] [-b bootdir ] [ interface ]"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B Rarpd
+is a daemon which responds to RARP requests.
+RARP is used by some machines at boot time to discover their IP address.
+They provide their Ethernet address and
+.B rarpd
+responds with their IP address if it finds it in the ethers database
+(either
+.I /etc/ethers
+file or NIS+ lookup) and using DNS lookup if ethers database
+contains a hostname and not an IP address.
+By default
+.B rarpd
+also checks if a bootable image with a name starting with the IP address
+in hexadecimal uppercase letters is present in the TFTP boot directory
+(usually
+.I /tftpboot
+) before it decides to respond to the RARP request.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-a
+Do not bind to the interface.
+.TP
+.B \-A
+Respond to ARP as well as RARP requests.
+.TP
+.B \-v
+Tell the user what is going on by being verbose.
+.TP
+.B \-d
+Debugging mode. Do not detach from the tty.
+.TP
+.B \-e
+Skip the check for bootable image in the TFTP boot directory. If not
+present, then even if the Ethernet address is present in
+the ethers database but the bootable image for the resolved IP does not exist,
+.B rarpd
+will not respond to the request.
+.TP
+.B "\-b bootdir"
+Use
+.I bootdir
+instead of the default
+.I /tftpboot
+as the TFTP boot directory for bootable image checks.
+.SH OBSOLETES
+This
+.B rarpd
+obsoletes kernel
+.B rarp
+daemon present in Linux kernels up to 2.2 which was controlled by the
+rarp(8) command.
+.SH FILES
+.I /etc/ethers,
+.br
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf,
+.br
+.I /tftpboot
+.SH SEE ALSO
+ethers(5)
+.SH AUTHORS
+Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
+.br
+Jakub Jelinek, <jakub@redhat.com>