1From 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--- 8 rarpd.8 | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 9 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) 10 create mode 100644 rarpd.8 11 12diff --git a/rarpd.8 b/rarpd.8 13new file mode 100644 14index 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-- 881.8.4.2 89 90