Trouble Booting a Diskless 4/65 from a 4/470 running SunOS 4.1

[Joe Smith]

In article <1990Oct8.002001.13190 at rice.edu> slv at bartok.att.com (Susan L. Vogel) writes:
>We've just brought up our 4/470 fileserver.  We've been unable to boot our
>diskless 4/65 clients: We get the following message on the client console:
>Timeout Waiting for ARP/RARP Packet

The rarpd program does not work if the server does not have NIT defined.
Check that the config file for your kernel has the following:

#
# The following are for streams NIT support.  NIT is used by
# etherfind, traffic, rarpd, and ndbootd.  As a rule of thumb,
# NIT is almost always needed on a server and almost never
# needed on a diskless client.
#
pseudo-device   snit            # streams NIT
pseudo-device   pf              # packet filter
pseudo-device   nbuf            # NIT buffering module
#

I ran into the same problem the first time I brought up a non-generic kernel.

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