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From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting Sparc 1
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Date: 24 Apr 1997 07:48:01 GMT
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Thomas Gunnar Sparks (tgs@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: When I run rarpd /dev/ed0 I get "BIOCSETIF : Device not configured"
: When I run rarpd -a it seems to work just fine...
: I'm guessing its possibly a problem with rarpd, so is there a way to tell 
: the sun to hit my machine specifically?

I have done a bit more debugging in procrastination of my homework (as 
usual) and from what I can tell is that the arp requests are getting to 
the machine (verified with tcpdump), but rarpd is not getting them.
I'm guessing that the error "BIOCSETIF" has something to do with it...

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