Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!metro!utsmips!theseus!patrick From: patrick@theseus.ccsd.uts.edu.au (Patrick Herlihy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: RARP Server for SGI Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 22:16:26 GMT References: <1991Feb15.135546.6736@nstn.ns.ca> Sender: news@utsmips.csd.uts.EDU.AU Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: theseus.ccsd.uts.edu.au marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli) writes: > After reading your message I tried to find the rarp server. The man >page exists. It says that there should be a file /usr/etc/rarpd. This file >does not exist!. My system is running IRIX 3.3.1 and has all of the networking >software loaded. What gives? > Is the software "missing" from the release, or has it been tucked away >in some hidden little niche of the release or release tape? >Kevin Marinelli >Academic Computing Services >Dalhousie University This is exactly the same problem we had! We were told by SGI here in Sydney that /usr/etc/rarpd should have been on the 3.3.1 update tape. I suspect it must be supplied with diskless machines ... or perhaps even then SGI would assume that you would use bootp instead of rarp. -- _--_|\ Patrick John Herlihy, patrick@ccsd.uts.EDU.AU / \ Computing & Communications Services Division, Ph: +61 2 413 8162 \_.--._/ University of Technology, Sydney, Fax: +61 2 416 7471 v PO Box 123, Broadway, New South Wales, 2007, Australia.