Smart II Software parameters: RARPD
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                                               LSS 5.0(0), August 1996
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1 Introduction
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This document describes the parameters that affect  the  operation  of 
the RARPD module on a particular Ringnode in your workstation.

The RARPD module provides the RARP server program that you need to run 
on a single station (the RARP server) if you want the workstations  on 
your network to use RARP to discover their own IP addresses.  (RARP is 
loaded when you load the IP module.)

In order to load the RARPD module, you must include a [RARPD]  section 
in  your  SMART.CFG file.  You cannot load or configure RARPD from the 
command line. Put any RARPD parameters  in  the  [RARPD]  section.  No 
other parameters are allowed in the [RARPD] section.

Table 1 summarizes the the RARPD parameters that are available.

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|                                                          |
| Parameter           Range      Default           Abbrev  |
| ---------           -----      -------           ------- |
| RARPD.CACHE.SIZE    16 - 256   Dynamic           RPDC    |
| ETHERS              A path     /NET/TCP/ETHERS           |
|                                                          |
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Table 1 Summary of the RARPD parameters.


2 RARPD Parameters
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This section describes the RARPD parameters. 


RARPD.CACHE.SIZE    Specifies the maximum size for  the  RARPD  cache.  
                    RARPD  uses  this  value (along with the number of 
                    elements in the ETHERS file) to determine how much 
                    Ringnode memory is needed for the address cache. 

                    If the number of addresses specified in the ETHERS 
                    file exceeds the  RARPD.CACHE.SIZE,  an  error  is 
                    generated.
                    
                    Example: RARPD.CACHE.SIZE=100

ETHERS              Specifies  the  location  of  the ETHERS file.  if  
                    you   are   not  using  the  default  location  of 
                    \NET\TCP\ETHERS,  You  must  enter  a path for the 
		    ETHERS file

                    Example: ETHERS=C:\MADGE\TCP\ETHERS


3 Sample ETHERS file entries
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The ETHERS file must formatted in the following way:

# MAC Address           IP Address

00:00:F6:28:00:40       194.32.220.129
40:00:00:12:34:56       193.35.2.1
00:00:F6:8C:00:00       131.45.4.100



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