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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!ellis!spfarrel From: spfarrel@ellis.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell) Subject: Re: netbooting NetBSD/sun3 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: midway.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <DEF5s7.8KF@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: spfarrel@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: redtape strn fanclub References: <42a4be$bg4@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu> <42cor9$t8k@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> <42fqs4$pqd@nic.lth.se> <42gcnb$pte@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 06:24:06 GMT Lines: 30 In article <42gcnb$pte@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote: >In article <42fqs4$pqd@nic.lth.se>, >Peter Svensson <petersv@piau.df.lth.se> wrote: > >>Linux has rarp as a part of the kernel drivers. > >Uhhhh ... what exactly do you mean? If a Sun workstation broadcasts >a reverse-ARP request, and there are N Linux systems on the network, >anyone of them could respond? Given the nature of Sun PROMs, if those >are indeed the semantics, I'd call that a BUG. he means that the support is in the kernel, but you run rarp to the hw address you set from the linux box you set this up on. e.g., in my /etc/rc.local: /sbin/rarp -s xhost 8:0:20:0:10:67 sound ok? > >-- >Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov >NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 >NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 >Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939 -- - steve