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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I set up rarpd ?
Date: 9 Apr 1997 11:46:21 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5ieoun$f3t@news1.radix.net>,
lotlbbt@radix.net (Lowell O. Turner) writes:
> okay,
>
> I'm all out of resources here at home. My numerous O'Reilly books
> do not give me a clue. The man pages appear to be silent on the
> subject. And my kernel has been compiling for the past 20 hours (it's
> a '486DX33 with 4Mb of RAM --the extra 16Meg simm I have is bad).
>
> Is there something specific that I must change in the configuration
> file(s) to get RARPD to run. I put the proper (according to the man
> page) statement in inetd.conf. However, I get a device not configured
> error (for device bpf0) and it terminates. man bpf doesn't give me a
> clue.
>
> I didn't see anything relating to bpf0 in the GENERIC configuration
> file. Will just the act of building a kernel configure bpf0 ? If not,
> could someone point out what is required?
Ha ha ! You should have searched for "bpf", not "bpf0" :) You need
options bpfilter 4
in your config (the 4 is variable). See LINT.
>
> TIA,
> Lowell
>
> ======================================================================
> Lowell O. Turner
> EE wanna be
> George Mason University
> Fairfax, VA
>
> lturner@nyx.net
> http://www.nyx.net/~lturner/
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !