Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!wdw
From: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Stanford PC-IP & RARP
Message-ID: <1238@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 18:00:54 GMT
Reply-To: wdw@aucs.UUCP (Bill Wilder)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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I  am  having problems getting Stanford PC-IP to use RARP protocol to
obtain internet addresses.  I can start a  RARP  daemon  on  our  Sun
(4/280 running Sun-OS 3.2) but the PC fails to obtain it's IP address 
at startup.  As far as I know I configured /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts
properly (we're not running Yellow Pages yet).
  
I  also  tried  initiating  a PC as the RARP server.  Another PC then
initializes properly (i.e.   presumably  it  obtained  it's  internet 
address) but a subsequent TELNET session to a host hangs while trying
to  initiate  the  connection.    If  the second PC uses a hard-coded
internet address (installed with the  CUSTOM  program)  TCPIP  starts 
properly and TELNET also works properly.
  
Anyone able to help? 
  
Many thanks

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