Subject: Re: That bare MAXINE I asked about yesterday.
To: Kevin Cousins <kevinc@vast.unsw.edu.au>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/20/1996 09:21:20
Kevin Cousins writes:
 > 
 > nfs_boot: using network interface 'le0'
 > panic: revarp failed, error=51
 > syncing disks... done
 > ...
 > 
 > Is there an obvious next step that we've missed?  We suspect that
 > despite succeeding with the bootpd and tftpd, it seems that the
 > FreeBSD box can't easily run a rarpd, without configuring a /dev/bpf0,
 > which we have not yet done.

You're suspicions are correct; you'll make no more progress w/o a
rarpd server running on your net.

It should be pretty easy to add bpf to your freebsd kernel, just add a
line 'pseudo-device bpfilter 1' to the end of your kernel config file,
rebuild & reboot.

Drew
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