From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 14:44:21 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA06963 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:44:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA06957 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA05676; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:44:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:44:06 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Steve Reid cc: "David W. Rankin Jr." , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RARP and bpf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.