RARPD Failure
Symptom: RARP client fails to get IP information from server. Server is seeing correct MAC address (verified by snoop), but just never answers. If you run rarpd -d -a (output debugging info), it says:
/usr/sbin/in.rarpd:[5] RARP_REQUEST for 0:3:ba:c:c:37
/usr/sbin/in.rarpd:[5] trying physical netnum 10.64.80.0 mask fffff000
/usr/sbin/in.rarpd:[5] got host entry but no IP address on this net
Probable Problem: The ethernet address entry is duplicated in the NIS or local ethers file.
Solution:
- Verify NIS ethers information is correct.
- Verify NIS information is not duplicated (ie the MAC address has exactly one entry in the ethers table).