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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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in.rarpd, rarpd DARPA Reverse Address Resolution Protocol Server

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/in.rarpd [-d] -a
/usr/sbin/in.rarpd [-d] device
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Description

The in.rarpd daemon responds to Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) requests. The daemon forks a copy of itself that runs in background. It must be run as root.

RARP is used by machines at boot time to discover their Internet Protocol (IP) address. The booting machine provides its Ethernet address in an RARP request message. Using the ethers and hosts databases, in.rarpd maps this Ethernet address into the corresponding IP address, which it returns to the booting machine in an RARP reply message. The booting machine must be listed in both databases for in.rarpd to locate its IP address. ...

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