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Old 01-16-2009
Here is a little trick!

I have been out to many a customer site and seen a lot of jumpstart issues.
You can NOT have more the one jumpstart/bootp server on a network. Even if you get YOUR jumpstart server to be seen half the time the other system could pick up halfway through the install and cause it to fail out on you.
To check your network from a 'NIX box... At least in Solaris, type

rpcinfo -b 100026 1

you can see everything that will respond for jumpstart.
Have fun,
-Corry
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rarp(7P)							     Protocols								  rarp(7P)

NAME
rarp, RARP - Reverse address resolution protocol DESCRIPTION
You use the RARP protocol to map dynamically between the Internet Protocol (IP) and network interface MAC addresses. RARP is often used to boot a Solaris client. RARP clients include the SPARC boot PROM, x86 boot floppy, SunOS kernel, and ifconfig(1M). in.rarpd(1M) provides the server-side implementation. RARP request timeout behavior in application-layer clients is governed by the /etc/inet/rarp default file. To tune the number of retries an application attempts before giving up, set the RARP_RETRIES variable in /etc/inet/rarp. If the file is not present or RARP_RETRIES is not initialized within it, applications retry a maximum of five times with a eight second wait between retries. FILES
/etc/inet/rarp ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (protocol) | Standard | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (defaults file) | Unstable | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability (RARP_RETRIES) | Unstable | +------------------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ifconfig(1M), in.rarpd(1M), arp(7P) Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RFC 903. June, 1994 R. Finlayson, T. Mann, J.C. Mogul, M. Theimer SunOS 5.10 8 Nov 2001 rarp(7P)