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De: Khimenko Victor <[e-mail]>
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Fecha: Martes, 04 de Enero de 2000 11:49
Asunto: Re: HELP!!! Where is RARP?

>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:
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>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.
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