IRDPRESPONDER(1)

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💖 IRDPRESPONDER(1) — the irdpresponder era 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about irdpresponder — yeah that's the IRDP responder packet sender, and she's lowkey iconic even though literally nobody wrote her a real manpage. 🙈

✨ NAME ✨

irdpresponder — bestie, she sends IRDP responder packets. that's the whole job. that's her whole thing. 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so this page is just the quick little rundown of the irdpresponder command, fr fr. and listen — this manual page was written for the Debian distribution specifically, because the original program does not have a manual page at all. not one. we were out here fending for ourselves. 😭 so somebody had to step up and write it, and here we are, and honestly? slay.

so here's the whole vibe, all the flags, no skips:

  • -v — verbose mode. she talks more. she tells you things. 💬
  • -P — turns on promiscuous mode</promiscuous> mode. yes that's the real name of the option, i don't make the rules. 👀
  • -i <interface> — picks the interface you're working with. which one, bestie? that one. 🦋
  • -p <preference> — the preference of this entry. the default is 0, so if you don't say anything she's just gonna sit at zero. 🤷‍♀️
  • -l <lifetime> — the lifetime of the entry. default is 1800. that's her window, that's her moment, she lives for 1800. ⏳
  • -S <spoofed source IP> — sets a spoofed source IP. the original page says "maybe you need this" and honestly? same energy. maybe you do, bestie. maybe you do. 💅
  • -D <destination IP> — sets the destination IP. and listen, if you don't specify this one, then the broadcast address gets used instead. that's just how it is. 📢
no cap: that's every single option from the original page, nothing dropped, nothing invented. if it wasn't in the source, it's not in here. periodt. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Vince Mulhollon <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — and the fun part is, other people can use it too. sharing is caring, bestie. 💖

and that's the whole page, we ate, no crumbs. 🍓

signing off with the receipts: this page is dated January 1, 2003, it lives under the General Commands Manual section as IRDPRESPONDER(1), and it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system. mwah. 💋✨

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