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Re: rarp on RTs?

#364
From: Charlie Slater
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1989 21:54
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In article <13@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jnford@jay.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jay Ford) writes:
>Does anyone know anything about reverse arp on the RTs?  I'd like to have
>some RTs here (6150/125 & 6152s) running IBM/4.3 (Dec 88) act as reverse
>arp servers, but I can't find any reference to rarp in the IBM docs.
>I'm up for kernel hacks if that's what it takes.  Any information would
>be appreciated.

I don't think any support for RARP is shipped with IBM/4.3.  What we
did in this situation was download the bootpd sources from uunet
and compile them.   So far, this has worked for us.

Disclaimer:  I am speaking for myself not for IBM.

charlie slater
uunet!ibmsupt!cslater
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From: cslater@ibmpa.UUCP (Charlie Slater)
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Subject: Re: rarp on RTs?
Keywords: reverse arp
Message-ID: <2181@ibmpa.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 21:54:49 GMT
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Organization: IBM AWD, Palo Alto
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