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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:44:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
Cc:        "David W. Rankin Jr." <rankin@cslab.uky.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RARP and bpf
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961209144353.5671A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961209095913.210B-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>

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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Steve Reid wrote:

> > I have a stock FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE system that I am trying to use to 
> > use as a netboot server. However, every time that I try to get it to
> > start rarpd, it complains that I don't have bpf configutred.
> 
> The GENERIC kernel does not have bpf compiled in. You have to compile your
> own. 
> 
> > Is this a configuration issue, or is bpf not in the release kernal?
> > If the latter, could someone point me to where I could get a kernal
> > with bpf in it? (I unfortunately don't have the space for the sources,
> > or I'd compile one myself.)
> 
> Don't have space for the kernel sources??? They're not _that_ big... The
> space needed for the source code and compile is probably less than 50
> megabytes. You don't need to install the whole FreeBSD source tree to
> compile a kernel, you just need the kernel sources. 
> 
> I don't know of any "we'll compile a kernel so you don't have to" type of
> services.
> 

Send me a config file and I'll do it.


 Ben

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Board of Queensland, Australia.





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