Re: RARP support disapeard in kernel 2.6.x ?

From: Tigran Aivazian
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 08:02:41 EST


also, the manpage rarpd(8) says:

OBSOLETES
This rarpd obsoletes kernel rarp daemon present in Linux kernels up to
2.2 which was controlled by the rarp(8) command.

which means the kernel version was removed much earlier.

Kind regards
Tigran

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> so, isn't rarpd (userspace daemon) supposed to provide what you want?
> It is installed on most distributions by default I think...
>
> Kind regards
> Tigran
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > ah, you want a RARP server, not a client, sorry.
> > I thought you wanted a RARP client.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Tigran
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Tomasz K³oczko wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-2] Tomasz K³oczko wrote:
> > > >> [linux-2.6.8.1]$ grep RARP .config
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm, you expected the above trivial command to reveal the answer?
> > > > Besides, it assumes that you do have RARP configured in the kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Try this command instead:
> > > >
> > > > $ find -name Kconfig | xargs grep -i rarp
> > > > ./net/ipv4/Kconfig: supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
> > > > ./net/ipv4/Kconfig:config IP_PNP_RARP
> > > > ./net/ipv4/Kconfig: bool "IP: RARP support"
> > > > ./net/ipv4/Kconfig: discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
> > > > ./net/ipv4/Kconfig: here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
> > > > ./net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig: This option adds the ARP match, which allows ARP and RARP header fi
> > > >
> > > > The option you are looking for is CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP.
> > >
> > > No. Look on IP_PNP_RARP description.
> > > I don't want boot using RARP/ARP but want prepare system where will be
> > > possible setup RARP table for boot other system using ARP/RARP/TFTP.
> > >
> > > kloczek
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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