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NAME

     mopd -- MOP Loader Daemon

SYNOPSIS

     mopd [-adf] [interface]

DESCRIPTION

     mopd services MOP Load requests on the Ethernet connected to interface or all interfaces if '-a' is given.  In a load request received by
     mopd a filename can be given. This is the normal case for e.g. terminal servers.  If a filename isn't given mopd must know what image to
     load.

     Upon receiving a request, mopd checks if the requested file exists in /srv/tftp/mop, the filename is normally uppercase and with an extension
     of .SYS.  If the filename isn't given, the ethernet address (in lower case, apart from the .SYS) of the target is used as the filename, e.g.
     08002b09f4de.SYS and it might be a soft link to another file.

     mopd supports two kinds of files. The first type that is check is if the file is in a.out(5) format. If not, a couple of Digital's formats
     are checked.

     In normal operation, mopd forks a copy of itself and runs in the background.  Anomalies and errors are reported via syslog(3).

OPTIONS

     -a      Listen on all the Ethernets attached to the system.  If '-a' is omitted, an interface must be specified.

     -d      Run in debug mode, with all the output to stdout. The process will run in the foreground.

     -f      Run in the foreground.

FILES

     /srv/tftp/mop

SEE ALSO

     bpf(4), mopa.out(1), mopchk(1), mopprobe(1), moptrace(1)

     DECnet Digital Network Architecture Phase IV, Maintenance Operations Functional Specification V3.0.0, AA-X436A-TK.

     DECnet Digital Network Architecture, Maintenance Operations Protocol Functional Specification V4.0.0, EK-DNA11-FS-001.

AUTHORS

     Mats O Jansson (moj@stacken.kth.se).

								September 24, 1995