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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!csugrad.cs.vt.edu!not-for-mail From: jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (H. Jared Agnew) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: rarpd config?? Date: 6 Oct 1996 21:22:29 -0400 Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA Lines: 21 Message-ID: <539m0l$t7v@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csugrad.cs.vt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I am diskless booting a old workstation, I need to run rarpd to facilitate it. However I have been reading the man page, and the following lines are confusing me. 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. No other rarpd I have seen has had this configuration, I currently dont have a tftpboot on my root, and I dont want one. I have my bootp setup to boot files in the /usr/NetBSD directory, and this will also be the place I NFS mount the diskless machine. If there is a reasoning for this configuration, in the /tftpboot directory can someone please explain it to me. If there are any other things that would help me setup rarpd will someone let me know. Thanks --- Jared --jared@vt.edu