From: Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:24:34 -0600 > It is very unusual to need to manually set entries in the arp table.
Here's the bigger picture. I'm working to install NetBSD on the old Sparcstation 2 using netboot. In the first step, the SS2 should get it's IP address from a Debian server by means of RARP. Back at the end of July it was no trouble. Now the the SS2 console reports no ARP/RARP response. I wonder whether this situation is consequent to an update in Squeeze or to a configuration detail I've overlooked. My question about arp and /etc/ethers is from troubleshooting RARP. If the server hasn't noticed /etc/ethers I don't expect it to give the RARP response. The other day I noticed this. ============================= http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html # From: MartA-n Ferrari <tin...@debian.or.> # Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:30:18 -0300 ... * rarp should be dropped, as the linux kernel doesn't support it anymore, since the 2.3 series. The replacement, arpd, is already included in iproute. ... ============================= Can arpd also provide RARP? Is rarpd unnecessary now? Is anyone currently using RARP and netbooting from a Debian Squeeze? Any tips? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. 7785886232 is gone. Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible as long as the old drives survive; installation of NetBSD on new drives pending. Personal pages, http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171056666.37817.31...@cantor.invalid
