Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:52:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@jagnew.cstone.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rarpd Message-ID: <199610070352.XAA00723@jagnew.cstone.net>
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Hi,
I am trying to set up rarpd. I read the man pages, and I'm having a bit of
trouble. In the man pages it says
Additionally, a request is honored only if the server
(i.e., the host that rarpd is running on) can "boot" the
target; that is, if the directory /tftpboot/ipaddr exists,
where ipaddr is the target IP address in hexadecimal.
This getts me, I dont understand why you need to have a /tftpboot/<ipaddr>
what is it for? It makes no sence to me. If I do need to have one, then
what do I put in it? Does it just sit there?
The address of the machine that will be requesting is 192.168.40.1 so should
I have a directory
/tftpboot/C0.A8.28.0b
It just sounds weird to me, if someone could explain why and if that is
correct. I have it setup this way and all I see when I tcpdump on my ethernet
device is
23:10:57.603562 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:10:58.103465 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:10:58.603445 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:10:59.103349 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:10:59.603326 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:11:00.103228 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:11:00.603206 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
23:11:02.103014 rarp who-is obi-wan.swars tell obi-wan.swars
This looks to me like rarpd is not doing anything.
BTW obi-wan is the client and the machine I'm running rarpd is yoda. ;)
---- Jared
--jared@vt.edu
Thanks for any help!!!
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