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rarp - manipulate the system RARP table
rarp [-V] [--version] [-h] [--help]
rarp -a
rarp [-v] -d hostname ...
rarp [-v] [-t type] -s hostname hw_addr
Rarp manipulates the kernel's RARP table in various ways.
The primary options are clearing an address mapping entry
and manually setting up one. For debugging purposes, the
arp program also allows a complete dump of the RARP table.
- -V
- Display the version of RARP in use.
- -v
- Tell the user what is going on by being verbose.
- -t type
-
When setting or reading the RARP table, this
optional parameter tells rarp which class of
entries it should check for. The default value of
this parameter is ether (i.e. hardware code 0x01
for IEEE 802.3 10Mbps Ethernet. Other values might
include network technologies such as AX.25 (ax25)
and NET/ROM (netrom).
- -a
-
- --list Lists the entries in the RARP table.
-
- -d hostname
-
- --delete hostname
-
Remove all RARP entries for the specified host.
- -s hostname hw_addr
-
- --set hostname hw_addr
-
Create a RARP address mapping entry for host hostname
with hardware address set to hw_addr class,
but for most classes one can assume that the usual
presentation can be used. For the Ethernet class,
this is 6 bytes in hexadecimal, separated by
colons.
Some systems (notably older Sun's) assume that the host
replying to a RARP query can also provide other remote
boot services. Therefore never gratuitously add rarp
entries unless you wish to meet the wrath of the network
administrator.
/proc/net/rarp,
Ross D. Martin, <martin@trcsun3.eas.asu.edu>
Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Phil Blundell, <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>
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