Hi all,
Thanks to Hal Stern the mystery has been resolved.
Turns out there is a -p flag to rarpd. This flag controls
whether or rarpd will query for a NIS map called policies.
I have included my original post and Hal's response.
again thanks to
stern@sunrise.East.Sun.COM
-----original post --------------
While using snoop to check a another problem I noticed
that all of my NIS clients that were running rarpd were
looking for a NIS map on the server called policies. Each
NIS client would look for a map called policies everytime
it failed to resolve a rarp request. Below is a sample snoop
report between one of my NIS clients and its NIS server. The
only reference to a map called policies that I could find was
in Answerbook and it said that the map was only used on 386i's.
My clients are SS 2's and my server is SS 10/41 all running 4.1.3
Does anyone know why the clients are looking for this map?
Thanks Mike
client is spcsed1 and server is sp10t0
---------snoop report -----------
1 0.00000 spcsed1 -> sp10t0 NIS C MATCH 0:0:1d:9:ce:33 in ethers.byaddr
2 0.00511 sp10t0 -> spcsed1 NIS R MATCH No such key
3 0.01266 spcsed1 -> sp10t0 NIS C MATCH pnp in policies
4 0.00258 sp10t0 -> spcsed1 NIS R MATCH No such map
5 0.86597 spcsed1 -> sp10t0 NIS C MATCH 0:0:1d:6:fc:94 in ethers.byaddr
6 0.00173 sp10t0 -> spcsed1 NIS R MATCH No such key
7 0.01653 spcsed1 -> sp10t0 NIS C MATCH pnp in policies
8 0.00300 sp10t0 -> spcsed1 NIS R MATCH No such map
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---------------Hal's response----------------
there's actually a flag to rarpd that controls this. it's used
to check the policies map for pnp (plug and play) to assign
IP addresses automatically. if you use
-p off
-p on
-p auto
you'll get policies off, on or automatically detected via the presence
of a "policies" map. if you want ot shut this off, use
rarpd -p off
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I have test Hal's answer and it works as advertised.
Mike
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