NAME

rarpd − reverse ARP daemon

SYNOPSIS

/etc/rarpd [ −c [ configfile ] ] [ −l ] [ −s lsap ]

DESCRIPTION

rarpd reads messages from a set of network interfaces and responds to those reverse address resolution protocol (RARP) requests for which information on the hardware address to physical address translation is known.  The network interfaces used and the translation table are specified in /etc/rarpd.cf. 

The −c option is used to specify an alternate configuration file.  If a file name is not specified, the file rarpd.cf in the current directory is used. 

The −l option enables the logging of all requests to syslog. Normally, only error conditions are logged.

The −s option allows the specification of an alternate service accesss point (sap) or type field value than the default of 0x8035. 

The configuration file contains lines of two types:  device configuration and internet to physical address mapping.  Device configuration lines are those where the first token on the line begins with a slash (/).  This is a device path name, while the second token is the internet address to associate with the device.  Mapping lines will contain an internet address and physical address pair. 

Internet addresses may be specified in either standard dotted decimal notation or as a host name.  The dotted decimal form is preferred. 

Physical addresses are specified as a string of hexidecimal digits.  If it is more convenient, each octet of the address may be separated from the others with a colon (:). 

Lines beginning with # are considered comments. 

# link level devices
# device internet
/dev/ub 128.212.32.13
# map table
# internetphysical
128.212.32.2000000c0f73010
128.212.32.20100:00:0c:06:77:24

SEE ALSO

RFC903. 

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