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   XPost: comp.arch.embedded, sci.electronics.design   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Didi  wrote:   
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   > In an attempt to solve it I spent 10 minutes adding RARP reply   
   > to our device Ethernet related stuff - so it would reply to an ARP   
   > inquiry #3 by sending its IP address (it only has one); and then spent   
   > perhaps 3 hours googling, moogling, you name it, searching for some   
   > piece of code to do that at the wintel side. Even rebooted the wintel   
   > laptop to ubuntu to try it out from there (thought arp -r or something   
   > would just work), oh no. No way. Spent perhaps half an hour of   
   > moogling for linux rarp, same thing.   
      
   Yesterday, not long after reading this, I was reading about a   
   device that offers RARP, ARP, BOOTP, and DHCP as ways of assigning   
   it an IP address.   
      
   Looking at the list, I didn't see how they would do it with ARP, but...   
      
   (This was suggested for Windows 98.)   
      
   arp -s (desired IP address) (device MAC address)   
   ping (desired IP address)   
      
   The device is designed such that when no IP address is assigned   
   that it looks for such ICMP packets.  They could only arrive from   
   hosts configured with such static ARP entries.  Once an address   
   is assigned (this way, or any other) the device ignores such.   
      
   That avoids the problem of no RARP, BOOTP, or DHCP on W98.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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