Re: HELP!!! Where is RARP?

[Khimenko Victor]

In <[e-mail]> Alexandre Hautequest ([e-mail]) wrote:
AH> Khimenko Victor wrote:
>>
>> In <[e-mail]> Alexandre Hautequest ([e-mail]) wrote:
>> > "David S. Miller" wrote:
>> >>
>> >>    Date:   Tue, 04 Jan 2000 09:36:57 -0200
>> >>    From: Alexandre Hautequest <[e-mail]>
>> >>
>> >>    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 ?

AH> I think at least some words of "you can find it" on kernel docs will be
AH> good... ou use the old-fashion style:

AH> < > RARP [OBSOLETE]

AH> And in help, says:

AH> "RARP support in kernel will be removed, 'cause is not a kernel side
AH> tool, and you can find support files in ftp://...... This feature *will*
AH> be removed in a near future."

Talks about romoval of RARP are two years old, userspace rarpd is also
more than year old. Enough is enough. This stuff should not be kept there
forever. Perhaps rarpd should be added in Changes file though...

AH> Is too much simple for anybody see this. Imagine a userland pci tools.
AH> One devel tree had drivers/pci tree cutted off. No one has talked about
AH> userland pci tools. The kernel docs never had one line about userland
AH> tools. What you will do?

I'll try to find a userlevel pci tools :-) Perhaps via linux-kernel mailing
list. Incompatible changes in linux-specific parts of kernel happens all the
time. ipfwadm was replaced with ipchains and ipchains now replaced with
netfilter as well, for example...

AH> I'm not flaming anybody, i'm just exposing my opinions, with my poor
AH> english.

AH> Thanks for pointing me rarpd.