[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 02:58 PM 3/4/2005, Tom Duffy wrote:
>In any event, I think being able to plop an IB network in an Ethernet
>world will require things like RARP to work.  If there is no spec now,
>it should be written.

I can't remember the last time I saw a machine RARP. Well, maybe I do
but it was like 1980-something. Since DHCP, I don't think there's a
reason for hosts to do it.

Here's what comes out when I type "man rarp" on a 2.6 system.
"Obsolete".

>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       This  program  is  obsolete.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

Tom.