Re: HELP!!! Where is RARP?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:02:20 +0300 (MSK)

In <38720CEA.4E142F8C@istm.com.br> Alexandre Hautequest (hquest@istm.com.br) wrote:
> "David S. Miller" wrote:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 09:36:57 -0200
>> From: Alexandre Hautequest <hquest@istm.com.br>
>>
>> I've compiled yesterday a vanilla 2.3.35, and for my surprise i did'n
>> find anymore RARP support. What happened to it? Is it dead? Stale
>> locked? Flushed? :)
>>
>> It doesn't belong in the kernel, so we removed it, and a userland
>> version is pending development.

> Right, I know i can use BOOTP/DHCP to make my diskless work again, and
> can compile a boot kernel w/ bootp support, but this removal looks
> strange to me... don't will be better to retain it until the userland
> comes? If this exist, where i can find it, and when will be documented?

Hmm. I'm not 100% sure but AFAIK it was available on
ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/ as well as all decent userland IP stuff for
linux. Userspace rarpd is dated 07 Nov 1998 - so it looks to me like userland
came WELL BEFORE kernel version was removed... What do you think ?

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