From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 19:13:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB13637B405 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0A343F1E for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0C3DSfX058853; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:13:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:13:28 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: Subject: Re: how do i setup my FreeBSD box to act like an RARP server? In-Reply-To: <20030112012852.17169.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030112040233.A58784-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, at 17:28 [=GMT-0800], Bsd Neophyte wrote: > in order for my to do this though, i need to be able to have my FreeBSD > box act as an RARP server. > > can anyone tell me how to do this? man rarpd tells it all, but is a bit short to get it started (and to see if the machine you want to install can talk to the rarp server), make on the server a file /etc/ethers looking like this: 08:00:2B:27:7D:16 vax where the numbers are the MAC address of the network card (you should get that from it, or from its bios) of the client, and "vax" is the hostname for the machine. Then put in /etc/hosts (on the server) vax 10.0.0.123 where 10.0.0.123 is the IP address the client is to have This should let your client get the IP address from the rarp server. If you want rarpd to start always at boot, add to /etc/rc.conf rarpd_enable="YES" # Run rarpd (or NO). rarpd_flags="-as" # Flags to rarpd. Or start it manually (as root) rarpd -as Next stage is to do tftpboot, which depends on your architecture, the Vax I ran NetBSD on, did this through mopd. But that is something from DEC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message