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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet 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. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <5ifvid$a5t@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <5ieoun$f3t@news1.radix.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5784 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 !