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+  <sect2 condition="supports-rarp" id="tftp-rarp">
+   <title>Setting up RARP server</title>
+<para>
+
+To setup RARP, you need to know the Ethernet address (a.k.a. the MAC address)
+of the client computers to be installed.
+If you don't know this information, you can
+
+<phrase arch="sparc"> pick it off the initial OpenPROM boot messages, use the
+OpenBoot <userinput>.enet-addr</userinput> command, or </phrase>
+
+boot into ``Rescue'' mode (e.g., from the rescue floppy) and use the
+command <userinput>/sbin/ifconfig eth0</userinput>.
+
+</para><para>
+
+On a RARP server system using a Linux 2.2.x kernel,
+you need to populate the kernel's RARP table.
+To do this, run the following commands:
+
+<informalexample>
+<para>
+
+<userinput>/sbin/rarp -s 
+<replaceable>client-hostname</replaceable>
+<replaceable>client-enet-addr</replaceable> 
+</userinput>
+
+</para><para>
+
+<userinput>/usr/sbin/arp -s 
+<replaceable>client-ip</replaceable>
+<replaceable>client-enet-addr</replaceable>
+</userinput>
+
+</para></informalexample>
+
+</para><para>
+
+If you get 
+
+<informalexample><screen>
+SIOCSRARP: Invalid argument
+</screen></informalexample> 
+
+you probably need to load the RARP kernel module or else recompile the
+kernel to support RARP.  Try <userinput>modprobe rarp</userinput> and
+then try the <command>rarp</command> command again.
+
+</para><para>
+
+On a RARP server system using a Linux 2.4.x kernel,
+there is no RARP module, and
+you should instead use the <command>rarpd</command> program.  The
+procedure is similar to that used under SunOS in the following
+paragraph.
+
+</para><para>
+
+Under SunOS, you need to ensure that the Ethernet hardware address for
+the client is listed in the ``ethers'' database (either in the
+<filename>/etc/ethers</filename> file, or via NIS/NIS+) and in the
+``hosts'' database. Then you need to start the RARP daemon.  In SunOS
+4, issue the command (as root): 
+<userinput>/usr/etc/rarpd -a</userinput>; in SunOS 5, use
+<userinput>/usr/sbin/rarpd -a</userinput>.
+
+</para>
+  </sect2>