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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
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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 !