Ken Yap wrote: > > >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. I run it as root. And I also recompiled bootpd. What version of bootpd is up to date?
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