Setting up RARP server
To set up 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
pick it off the initial OpenPROM boot messages, use the
OpenBoot .enet-addr command, or
boot into Rescue
mode and use the
command ip addr show dev eth0.
On a RARP server system using a Linux kernel or Solaris/SunOS,
you use the rarpd program.
You need to ensure that the Ethernet hardware address for the client is
listed in the ethers
database (either in the
/etc/ethers file, or via NIS/NIS+) and in the
hosts
database. Then you need to start the RARP daemon.
Issue the command (as root): /usr/sbin/rarpd -a
on most Linux systems and SunOS 5 (Solaris 2),
/usr/sbin/in.rarpd -a on some other Linux systems,
or /usr/etc/rarpd -a in SunOS 4 (Solaris 1).