On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> NetBSD 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 encounter this problem all of the time.
> 
> I did patch my rarpd with changes from -current some time ago and the
> result was that I can now reliably boot the client(s) by simply removing
> and re-publishing the correct ARP entry, such as with:
> 
> 	arp -d hostname ; arp -s hostname XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> 
> In the case of my sparcstation the boot hangs just before it starts to
> tftp the boot loader.  When I do the above on the server then the client
> immediately begins to load.  I no longer have to restart rarpd.

	Hmm - can you check to see if rarpd tries to add the entry to the
	local arp cache?


		David/absolute