Patrick Williams | b48b7b4 | 2016-08-17 15:04:38 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | From d91161eb163c16408202a91b4325a3381ab33752 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| 2 | From: Li xin <lixin.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> |
| 3 | Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:55:31 +0900 |
| 4 | Subject: [PATCH 1/5] rarpd.8 : add man file |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Signed-off-by: Li Xin <lixin.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> |
| 7 | --- |
| 8 | rarpd.8 | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
| 9 | 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) |
| 10 | create mode 100644 rarpd.8 |
| 11 | |
| 12 | diff --git a/rarpd.8 b/rarpd.8 |
| 13 | new file mode 100644 |
| 14 | index 0000000..ce7bd70 |
| 15 | --- /dev/null |
| 16 | +++ b/rarpd.8 |
| 17 | @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ |
| 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 | -- |
| 88 | 1.8.4.2 |
| 89 | |