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From: kcousins@awadi.com.au (Kevin Cousins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: bootpd / arp table update problem
Date: 26 May 95 12:52:42
Organization: AWA Network Engineering
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <KCOUSINS.95May26125242@desertoak.awadi.com.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: desertoak.awadi.com.au


We have an i486 with NetBSD 1.0 installed. This box is serving bootp
requests to a dozen or so embedded clients.

It appears that initially everything goes along fine, until one of
the clients is reset and performs its bootp request again.

At that point, bootpd complains about 'arp failed, exit code 0x100'.

'arp -a' lists MAC address of the client whose request failed as
'(incomplete)'.

Deleting the offending entry from the arp table temporarily corrects
the problem.

What gives? Has anyone seen this behaviour before?

--Kevin.
kcousins@awadi.com.au
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--Kevin.
kcousins@awadi.com.au

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