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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: rarpd config question Date: 28 Aug 1995 17:14:47 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 38 Message-ID: <41sti7$m09@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <41qu4g$glv@a3bsrv.nai.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Stan Voket (asv@gaboon.nai.net) had the courage to say: : Dear Netfriends, : I need to get /usr/sbin/rarpd running here to boot some Sun 3's diskless. : Upon start, I get the following error: : Aug 27 19:04:08 europa rarpd[273]: /dev/bpf0: Device not configured : and rarpd exits... : What is /dev/bpf0 and how/why does one configure it? Try 'man bpf' and you will be enlightened. 'man rarpd' wouldn't hurt either. You did install the man pages, didn't you? (They're not really as optional as one might think.) BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter, and you must have BPF support compiled into your kernel to use rarpd, since RARP is a link-layer protocol that can't be dealt with using sockets. You need to add a line that says: pseudo-device bpfilter 4 to your kernel configuration file and then build a new kernel. In SunOS, the packet filter used is NIT (Network Interface Tap) rather than BPF, but the idea's the same. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~