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