Re: Booting from network

[Jim Koontz <jrkoontz@atlas.csd.net>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, C. Falconer wrote:

> Sorry - missed the original on this...
> 
> Do you have a rarpd server on the network?  Later kernel 2.3 and all 2.4 
> does not support rarp any more (I have the same problem, and rarpd the new 
> daemon for rarp won't compile for me)

See, I knew I was overlooking something!  I loaded the kernel module for
rarp support, and added entries into the rarp tables for the client
machine, but neglected to start a listener -- rarpd!

Unfortunately, I had the same experience you did, there is no rarpd in my
distribution.  I was able to download the source for rarpd from
dimensia.org (found it on freshmeat).  Although it was somewhat of a PITA,
I did get it to compile.  I still am having the same errors though...

> 
> 
> At 08:46 AM 6/28/00 +1000, you wrote:
> > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Koontz <jrkoontz@home.com> writes:
> >
> >     Jim> When I boot the sparc machine, it displays this message:
> >
> >     Jim> "Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet"
> >
> >     Jim>
> >
> >     Jim> Obviously, the server is not seeing the sparc client's
> >     Jim> request, but I don't know what else to check.  Does anyone
> >     Jim> have any suggestions?

Brian May wrote:
> >
> >Are you sure the server is not seeing the request? Or perhaps,
> >the sparc client cannot see the reply?

Yes, I am sure because I can see the activity on the hub -- the client is
sending, but the server never responds.  Also, no connection is recorded
in the logs.

> >Use tcpdump on the server to find out if the server is responding or
> >not.

I'll give this a try, maybe I can get more debugging data...

Thanks guys!

Jim Koontz