Reverse ARP (was: Re: New 170 installation and initial setup)

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Patrick,

I'll look for the RFC but how would simply assigning an IP address help?  You'd 
certainly need 
to assign an IP address but you'd still need the various daemons started.  You 
couldn't TELNET 
to the AS/400 without the TELNET daemon running and how would that start?

You'd also need LAN support, job support, virtual terminal support, and 
probably other things 
too -- much of which might not be available during install.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; U)
> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 99 09:28:36 -0700
> From: "Patrick Townsend" <townsend@patownsend.com>
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: New 170 installation and initial setup

> 
> 
> Simon,
> 
> Reverse ARP is a mechanism to assign an IP address to a system that does
> not have one. If I'm not mistaken its covered by an RFC. A client (such
> as a PC) uses the MAC address of the server and sends a request that it
> assign an itself an IP address. The server (in this case, hopefully, the
> AS/400) then assigns itself that IP address. Once it has an IP address
> you can telnet, ftp, http, etc. to it. Would be nice to be able to do
> this on a new AS/400 instead of having to fiddle with the lame serial
> connection from PC5250.
> 
> Patrick

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