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From: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@jagnew.cstone.net>
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Subject: rarpd
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Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 23:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
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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!!!