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Re: bootpd problem



>I got a problem with the bootpd. It starts fine, reads /etc/bootptab and
>waits. Then, when the Client starts up it recognizes its broadcast and
>attemts to answer it. During that it tries to put his mac -adress in the
>arp-table of the server machine. there it exits and says that the
>SIOCSARP-function would not work. I also tried to recompile bootpd and
>checked the function which does that ioctl-call. I am not sure weather
>or not it might be do to the newer implementation of SIOCSARP against
>1.x.x Kernels. I tried different Kernels (2.0.30 and .33). Is this a
>common phenomenon?

There was a change to the system call SIOCSARP at some kernel version,
1.3.something I think, so you should recompile your bootpd to match
the kernel. Also remember bootpd must run as root.



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