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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(8) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   RARP(8)

NAME
rarp - manipulate the system RARP table SYNOPSIS
rarp [-V] [--version] [-h] [--help] rarp -a rarp [-v] -d hostname ... rarp [-v] [-t type] -s hostname hw_addr NOTE
This program is obsolete. From version 2.3, the Linux kernel no longer contains RARP support. For a replacement RARP daemon, see ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/net-tools DESCRIPTION
Rarp manipulates the kernel's RARP table in various ways. The primary options are clearing an address mapping entry and manually setting up one. For debugging purposes, the rarp program also allows a complete dump of the RARP table. OPTIONS
-V Display the version of RARP in use. -v Tell the user what is going on by being verbose. -t type When setting or reading the RARP table, this optional parameter tells rarp which class of entries it should check for. The default value of this parameter is ether (i.e. hardware code 0x01 for IEEE 802.3 10Mbps Ethernet . Other values might include network tech- nologies such as AX.25 (ax25) and NET/ROM (netrom). -a --list Lists the entries in the RARP table. -d hostname --delete hostname Remove all RARP entries for the specified host. -s hostname hw_addr --set hostname hw_addr Create a RARP address mapping entry for host hostname with hardware address set to hw_addr class, but for most classes one can assume that the usual presentation can be used. For the Ethernet class, this is 6 bytes in hexadecimal, separated by colons. WARNING
Some systems (notably older Suns) assume that the host replying to a RARP query can also provide other remote boot services. Therefore never gratuitously add rarp entries unless you wish to meet the wrath of the network administrator. FILES
/proc/net/rarp, SEE ALSO
arp(8), route(8), ifconfig(8), netstat(8) AUTHORS
Ross D. Martin, <martin@trcsun3.eas.asu.edu> Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> Phil Blundell, <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com> net-tools 4 August 1997 RARP(8)