NAME

rarpd − DARPA Reverse Address Resolution Protocol service

SYNOPSIS

/etc/rarpd

DESCRIPTION

Rarpd is a protocol to get a machine’s IP address (32bit) from its Ethernet address (48bit) at boot time.  In order to answer the reverse-arp  request, a machine’s name-to-IP-address list must be in /etc/hosts file, and its name-to-Ethernet-address list must be in /etc/ethers file. 

The reverse-arp server starts a daemon that responds to these requests.  The server that runs the rarpd daemon must be in both /etc/hosts file and /etc/ethers file. 

If the server machine is using the NIS(Network Information Service), the server’s files are ignored, and the appropriate NIS maps queried. 

FILES

/etc/ethers
/etc/yp/domainname/ethers.byaddr.∗
/etc/yp/domainname/ethers.byname.∗
/etc/hosts
/etc/yp/domainname/hosts.byname.∗

SEE ALSO

ethers(5), hosts(5), ifconfig(8C)

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