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Patrick Williamsb48b7b42016-08-17 15:04:38 -05001From d91161eb163c16408202a91b4325a3381ab33752 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Li xin <lixin.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
3Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:55:31 +0900
4Subject: [PATCH 1/5] rarpd.8 : add man file
5
6Signed-off-by: Li Xin <lixin.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
7---
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9 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+)
10 create mode 100644 rarpd.8
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18+.TH RARP 8 "7 April 2000" "rarpd" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
19+.SH NAME
20+rarpd \- Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) daemon
21+.SH SYNOPSIS
22+.B "rarpd [-aAvde] [-b bootdir ] [ interface ]"
23+.SH DESCRIPTION
24+.B Rarpd
25+is a daemon which responds to RARP requests.
26+RARP is used by some machines at boot time to discover their IP address.
27+They provide their Ethernet address and
28+.B rarpd
29+responds with their IP address if it finds it in the ethers database
30+(either
31+.I /etc/ethers
32+file or NIS+ lookup) and using DNS lookup if ethers database
33+contains a hostname and not an IP address.
34+By default
35+.B rarpd
36+also checks if a bootable image with a name starting with the IP address
37+in hexadecimal uppercase letters is present in the TFTP boot directory
38+(usually
39+.I /tftpboot
40+) before it decides to respond to the RARP request.
41+.SH OPTIONS
42+.TP
43+.B \-a
44+Do not bind to the interface.
45+.TP
46+.B \-A
47+Respond to ARP as well as RARP requests.
48+.TP
49+.B \-v
50+Tell the user what is going on by being verbose.
51+.TP
52+.B \-d
53+Debugging mode. Do not detach from the tty.
54+.TP
55+.B \-e
56+Skip the check for bootable image in the TFTP boot directory. If not
57+present, then even if the Ethernet address is present in
58+the ethers database but the bootable image for the resolved IP does not exist,
59+.B rarpd
60+will not respond to the request.
61+.TP
62+.B "\-b bootdir"
63+Use
64+.I bootdir
65+instead of the default
66+.I /tftpboot
67+as the TFTP boot directory for bootable image checks.
68+.SH OBSOLETES
69+This
70+.B rarpd
71+obsoletes kernel
72+.B rarp
73+daemon present in Linux kernels up to 2.2 which was controlled by the
74+rarp(8) command.
75+.SH FILES
76+.I /etc/ethers,
77+.br
78+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf,
79+.br
80+.I /tftpboot
81+.SH SEE ALSO
82+ethers(5)
83+.SH AUTHORS
84+Alexey Kuznetsov, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
85+.br
86+Jakub Jelinek, <jakub@redhat.com>
87--
881.8.4.2
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