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From: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: RARP
Message-ID: <447@wattres.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 90 08:05:33 GMT
References: <9003170021.AA27209@caldwr.water.ca.gov>
Reply-To: steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt)
Organization: Steven Watt, Consultant
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In article <9003170021.AA27209@caldwr.water.ca.gov> sjvdp@WATER.CA.GOV (San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program) writes:
>
>	We are integrating a number of PC's onto our building-wide Ethernet.
[ Info about systems and why this is needed ]

>	Any pointers to a RARP server would be greatly appreciated.
>
>-HWM
>
>----------
>Henry W. Miller
>Assistant Systems Manager, Mid Pacific Region

I would suggest using BOOTP instead...  It is much more robust, and can be
used to tell the PC many more interesting things than just its IP address...

In fact, the CMU implementation allows you to specify (per PC)::
Subnet mask, Default gateway, Domain name server, IEN-116 name server,
Time server, Cookie server (fortunes, I think), IMPress server, log server,
lpr server, etc etc etc etc...

If you would like, I could mail you a (slightly fixed) version.  It is also
available via anonymous FTP from lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.13.21),
without the bug fixed.  One of these days I'm going to mail back the bug fix.
(Just found it today:  Watch what it passes to report() when the bind fails
or the getsockname fails!)

It has been tested with FTP Software's BOOTP client, and seems to work.

Just a satisfied user.

Oh yeah....  IMPress is probably a copyright of Imagen Corp.
-- 
Steve Watt
...!claris!wattres!steve		wattres!steve@claris.com also works
If you torture your data long enough, it'll eventually confess.