On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:46:38PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully we've cooled down now and as usual we blame the 1 question with 20
> threads after it.. defeats the purpose really.... any, here's my question.
>
> I'm running RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.12-20 and want to try the /etc/ethers file
> with RARP.
>
> when I run `rarp -a` I get "This kernel does not support RARP.".
Because it doesn't :) RARP is a kernel option and isn't usually
cimpiled into the kernel by default. try insmod rarp as root as it may
be compiled as a module otherwise you're going to have to do a kernel
compile and compile it in.
>
> Any ideas why?
>
> I basically just want to be able to do a `ping printserver1` when there's an
> entry in /etc/ethers as below.
> 00:00:B4:45:35:5F printserver1
>
> Can this be done or am I undestanding it wrongly..?
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
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