sjvdp@WATER.CA.GOV (San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program) (03/17/90)
We are integrating a number of PC's onto our building-wide Ethernet. We are using NCSA Telnet as the user platform on the PC's, but do not want to get stuck in the position of having to install an individual configuration file on each PC. We also do not want to have users swapping the config files with each other, thus misdirecting us as to which user logged onto which PC did what. (I.E., for security reasons, we want each PC to have one Internet number assigned to it). On the side of the larger systems, we currently have 4 VAXes of various sizes running VMS and a number of UNIX systems, (SUN, Apollo, Plexus). would like to have RARP on at least one of these systems so we can keep a centralized database of Ethernet to Internet number conversions. Any pointers to a RARP server would be greatly appreciated. -HWM ---------- Henry W. Miller Assistant Systems Manager, Mid Pacific Region U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 2800 Cottage Way MP1100 Sacramento, CA 95825 (916) 978-5108 / FTS 460-5108 Inet: "sanj!henrym@caldwr.water.ca.gov" BITNET: "hmiller@scu" UUCP: "...caldwr!sanj!henrym" "Bad guys abuse public land, good guys save it."
steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) (03/18/90)
In article <9003170021.AA27209@caldwr.water.ca.gov> sjvdp@WATER.CA.GOV (San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program) writes: > > We are integrating a number of PC's onto our building-wide Ethernet. [ Info about systems and why this is needed ] > Any pointers to a RARP server would be greatly appreciated. > >-HWM > >---------- >Henry W. Miller >Assistant Systems Manager, Mid Pacific Region I would suggest using BOOTP instead... It is much more robust, and can be used to tell the PC many more interesting things than just its IP address... In fact, the CMU implementation allows you to specify (per PC):: Subnet mask, Default gateway, Domain name server, IEN-116 name server, Time server, Cookie server (fortunes, I think), IMPress server, log server, lpr server, etc etc etc etc... If you would like, I could mail you a (slightly fixed) version. It is also available via anonymous FTP from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.13.21), without the bug fixed. One of these days I'm going to mail back the bug fix. (Just found it today: Watch what it passes to report() when the bind fails or the getsockname fails!) It has been tested with FTP Software's BOOTP client, and seems to work. Just a satisfied user. Oh yeah.... IMPress is probably a copyright of Imagen Corp. -- Steve Watt ...!claris!wattres!steve wattres!steve@claris.com also works If you torture your data long enough, it'll eventually confess.