User guide

Manual Installation Procedure
5-20 ❖ XNIC-ENET/TRING Configuration Guide
IP Address
Option 3:
Using RARP
To determine if RARP is running on your host, enter:
ps -ax | grep rarpd (BSD)
or
ps -ef | grep rarpd (System V)
If RARP is running on your host, proceed as follows:
Note
If the system does not display a process number for the RARP
daemon, skip to the section IP Address Option 4:
Using ARP (page 5-22).
To begin the RARP procedure, the IP address on the XNIC
must be none.
1
Edit the file /etc/ethers (or /usr/etc/ethers) by adding a line
that describes the XNIC as follows:
00:00:c9:xx:xx:xx server_node_name
where 00:00:c9:xx:xx:xx represents the XNIC-ENET
hardware address, or 00:00:93:xx:xx:xx represents the
XNIC-TRING hardware address.
The default server_node_name is XNExxxxxx for
XNIC-ENET, or XNTxxxxxx for XNIC-TRING where
xxxxxx is the last six characters of the XNIC hardware
address.
For example, if the Ethernet hardware address is
00-00-c9-88-E8-29, enter the following line in the ethers file:
00:00:c9:88:E8:29 XNE88E829
If the Token Ring hardware address is 00-00-93-10-76-E4,
enter the following line in the ethers file:
00:00:93:10:76:E4 XNT1076E4
You may change the server node name to a more
convenient name if desired. Refer to the section
Setting Optional Configurations (page 5-35).
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