Re: RARP support disapeard in kernel 2.6.x ?

[Bill Davidsen]

Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > also, the manpage rarpd(8) says:
> >
> > OBSOLETES
> >       This  rarpd obsoletes kernel rarp daemon present in Linux 
> > kernels up to
> >       2.2 which was controlled by the rarp(8) command.
> >
> > which means the kernel version was removed much earlier.
>
>
> # ps aux | grep rarpd
> root      4563  0.0  0.0  1456  332 ?        Ss   15:02   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/rarpd
> # rarp -a
> This kernel does not support RARP.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong but IIRC rarpd as same as arpd was only neccessary for 
> large RARP table.

Is it possible that you are using an old version of the rarp command 
which is trying to use the kernel RARP rather than using the rarpd?


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