[tech] RARP

[Grahame Bowland]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:20:43PM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> Grahame Bowland wrote on Wed October 25, at 17:46 +0800:
> > Just tried to set up RARP for the Suns. Morwong doesn't have the 
> > packetfilter stuff in the kernel, so I couldn't use that. So I tried 
> > hydra. Sniffing eth[0-3] didn't show any RARP requests. Tried mermaid, 
> > it was seeing the requests. Why wouldn't hydra be seeing these?
> 
> Most mysterious.
> 
> > Anyway, I installed rarpd on mermaid and it proceeded to segfault. 
> > Wonderful.
> 
> Keep trying.  It annoyed enough that I was able to solve your stupid
> riddle in less time than I'm wasting replying to your email that I
> undid my work so that you might work it out yourself and learn
> something.

Come on. If this is the attitude of people to me trying to set up boxes 
that have been sitting around doing nothing then I won't bother. I've got 
better things to do with my time than scramble around helplessly while 
Dunc accumulates geek-points by making me feel stupid.

Okay, I can't see what's wrong. Yes, I've read the manpages. Yes, I've run 
gdb over the thing. I know there is a kernel rarp module, but apparently it's
obsoleted by the userland stuff. And it's not installed, so it's not a wierd 
conflict. /etc/ethers looks right, I don't know.

Grahame