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Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of
.\" California. All rights reserved.
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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.TH RARPD 8 "19 Jul 1993"
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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.SH NAME
rarpd \- Reverse ARP Daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B rarpd
[
.B \-afsv
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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]
[
.I interface
]
.br
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.I Rarpd
services Reverse ARP requests on the Ethernet connected to
.I interface.
Upon receiving a request,
.I rarpd
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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maps the target hardware address to an IP address via its name, which
must be present in both the
.I ethers(5)
and
.I hosts(5)
databases.
If a host does not exist in both databases, the translation cannot
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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proceed and a reply will not be sent.
By default, a request is honored only if the server
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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(i.e., the host that rarpd is running on)
can "boot" the target; that is, a file or directory matching the glob
/tftpboot/\fIipaddr\fP*
exists, where \fIipaddr\fP is the target IP address in hex.
For example, the IP address 204.216.27.18 will be replied to if any of
/tftpboot/CCD81B12, /tftpboot/CCD81B12.SUN3, or /tftpboot/CCD81B12-boot
exist.
This requirement can be overridden with the
.B \-s
flag (see below).
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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In normal operation,
.I rarpd
forks a copy of itself and runs in
the background. Anomalies and errors are reported via
.I syslog(3).
.SH OPTIONS
.LP
.TP
.B \-a
Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system.
If `-a' is omitted, an interface must be specified.
.TP
.B \-f
Run in the foreground.
.TP
.B \-s
Supply a response to any RARP request for which an ethernet to IP address
mapping exists; do not depend on the existence of
/tftpboot/\fIipaddr\fP*.
.TP
.B \-v
Enable verbose sysloging.
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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.SH FILES
/etc/ethers
.br
/etc/hosts
.br
/tftpboot
.SH SEE ALSO
bpf(4)
.br
RFC 903: Finlayson, R.; Mann, T.; Mogul, J.C.; Theimer, M. Reverse Address
Resolution Protocol. 1984 June; 4 p.
.SH AUTHORS
Craig Leres (leres@ee.lbl.gov) and
Steven McCanne (mccanne@ee.lbl.gov).
Obtained from: An old BPF release packaged with the tcpdump-2.0 source code. "Yes Virginia, there is a rarpd." (Before anyone asks, this *not* the rarpd from NetBSD. It did come from the same place as theirs, however.) This is a port of the rarpd program included with the tcpdump-2.0 source code (which I finally unearthed after scrounging around some of the darker corners of the Internet). It's as close to the original as I could keep it except for the following changes: - The original program was based on an older version of the Berkeley Packet Filter which used different filter programming instructions. Fortunately, an updated RARP packet filter is available right in the BPF man page so this was easy to fix. - The old code didn't know how to deal with variable length addresses in ifreq buffers. This has been fixed. - Some byte order weirdness had to be fixed. The sanity checks in rarp_check() needed some htons()es, and the rarp_reply() function needed to properly set the ether_type field in the ethernet header to ETHERTYPE_REVARP before transmitting the packet, otherwise the bytes in ether_type would wind up reversed. It is important to note that using htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP) will not work. This is odd, because the NetBSD rarpd uses htons(ETHERTYPE_REVARP). (Praise be to tcpdump: I would never have been able to track this silliness down without it.) - The update_arptab() function has been castrated. It depends on SIOCSARP which has been deprecated in 4.4BSD. The NetBSD people don't seem to be using this function either. It wouldn't be too hard to replace this with equivalent code from arp.c, but it might not be necessary. - I put together an ether_ntohost() support function that allows both local (/etc/ethers) and NIS lookups. This stuff should go in libc at some point, but nothing else seems to need it for now, so it can wait a while. As you may have guessed, you need to have the Berkeley Packet Filter in your kernel in order to use this program. The good news is that together with the recently added bootparamd, you can use finally use a FreeBSD box to boot Sun boxes over the network. (This was my whole motivation for getting this stuff to work: I have this one subnet that has a whole bunch of Sun3 X-terminals on it with only two Sun4 workstations, both of which are locked in peoples' offices. If those two machines crash (and they do every so often) then none of the X-terms will boot. Now I can use a spare PC that I have as a boot server. :)
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
.SH BUGS
.I rarpd
can depend on the DNS to resolve the name discovered from /etc/ethers.
If this name is not in the DNS but is in /etc/hosts, the DNS lookup
can cause a delayed RARP response, so in this situation it is reccommended to
configure /etc/host.conf to read /etc/hosts first.