> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 01:44:09 -0800 (PST)
> From: Diyamanthi Dahanayake <dahanaya@chaph.usc.edu>

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to use a sun 3/60 diskless with the server being a 486/66 running
> FreeBSD. The sun binaries are from the NetBSD/sun3 port.

> The files /etc/ether include the line
> 8:0:20:0:5:9A	machineB

That should be /etc/ethers of course.

> 	On issueing the following, (just out of curiosity)
> 
> 	>b le(0,0,0)
> 	Boot: le(0,0,0)
> 	Requesting Internet address for 8:0:20:0:5:9A
> 
> 	and the corresponding tcpdump o/p at the 486/66 end
> 
> 	09:15:27.791418 rarp who-is MachineB tell MachineB
> 	09:15:29.426758 rarp who-is MachineB tell MachineB

Great!  Useful clues!  The client is not getting an answer
when it tries to RARP for its IP address.  Your server is
either not running rarpd or rarpd is mis-configured.

Gordon