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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!jmlbhome.demon.co.uk From: jelibean@jmlbhome.demon.co.uk (Julian Bean) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd,alt.allsysop Subject: Re: BOOTP Servers. Date: 24 Nov 1995 09:11:25 BST Organization: none Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <690@jmlbhome.demon.co.uk> References: <4905ff$kud@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jmlbhome.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jmlbhome.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:35256 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1519 alt.allsysop:167 In article <4905ff$kud@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> s.elliott@ic.ac.uk (Scot Elliott) writes: >Hi all. Sorry for the cross-postings here, but I'm new to most these >groups. > >Anyway - I'm trying to implement a PC running BSDI's package, as a >BOOTP server for our network of PCs and VAXes (Multinet). The PCs are >using the Chamelion IP stack, setup to use BOOTP for its IP address, >gateway etc etc. > >I have created a bootptab file, and un-commented the bootp stuff in >the inetd.conf file. But I keep getting SYSLOG errors about ARP >requests failing. When I use ARP -d to see the current entries, the >requesting PC's address is there, but there does not appear to have >been a boot-reply sent to the PC by my machine. Do I also neet to use >the /etc/ethers file, or start any other demons to make this work >(BOOTPD starts when it receives a request), or create any special >directories anywhere (someone else mentioned this)? - Or could I have >a copy of some one else's tab file to see where I'm going wrong? > >I would appreciate anyone's input here, because I've spend many hours >just watching blank screens recently! > >Thanks a lot - Yours, Scot Elliott. >Dept. Computing, Imperial College, London. > There is no reason for such gross crossposting - just stick it in comp.unix.admin, a general question like this. You are not running a rarpd on any of your machines. You probably need /etc/ethers to map ethernet addresses to IP addresses anyway, and the presence of /etc/ethers on many systems will run the rarpd daemon. In Solaris 2.4 it is called in.rarpd, I suspect in BSDi it is just rarpd. Failing that start it up manually from a /etc/rc file - something like "rarpd -a &", probably check out man rarpd. Jules