jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) (03/04/91)
The standard BSD 4.3 does not seem to have a 'rarpd' program implimented. Is there a public version of the RARP protocol. Please mail a reply to John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu
pkilllea@unix2.tcd.ie (Tom Killalea) (03/07/91)
In <17161@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes: >The standard BSD 4.3 does not seem to have a 'rarpd' program >implimented. Is there a public version of the RARP protocol. >jclark@ucsd.edu We use bootpd for ip address resolution for ethernetted PCs on a tahoe running BSD 4.3, but Macs running NCSA Telnet look for rarpd to dynamically get an ip number. Apparently there isn't an rarpd implementation under BSD for security reasons - it doesn't like user level processes looking at ethernet packets. If someone has discovered a workaround for this, other than assigning ip numbers for the Macs manually, I'd like to hear it. Tom. -- Tom Killalea | | Trinity College | pkilllea@unix2.tcd.ie |
pkilllea@unix2.tcd.ie (Tom Killalea) (03/11/91)
The problem... >In <17161@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes: >>The standard BSD 4.3 does not seem to have a 'rarpd' program >>implimented. Is there a public version of the RARP protocol. >running BSD 4.3, but Macs running NCSA Telnet look for rarpd to >dynamically get an ip number. Apparently there isn't an rarpd implementation >under BSD for security reasons - it doesn't like user level processes looking >at ethernet packets. If someone has discovered a workaround for this, other >than assigning ip numbers for the Macs manually, I'd like to hear it. The solution... If you use MacTCP, the "server" mode first looks for Fastpath-like devices configured to hand out dynamic addresses, then looks for a Rarp server, then looks for a bootp server. This works as of version 1.01. Dan Magorian (301) 405-3004 Computer Science Center magorian@ni.umd.edu Thanks to those who replied, and in particular to Dan for the above. Tom. -- Tom Killalea | | Trinity College | pkilllea@unix2.tcd.ie |