OT: Anybody know what LARP is?
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Thu May 29 02:35:56 UTC 2003
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> I know that this is off topic and that there is probably a forum somewhere
> more appropriate, so I'll appreciate any direction as to where would be
> better...
Try to make it on topic. Locus was bought by Computer Associates, which
has apparently "hijacked" their networks instead of returning them to ARIN :-)
> whois -h whois.arin.net 130.200.0.0
OrgName: Computer Associates International
OrgID: CAI-7
Address: 1 CA Plaza
City: Islandia
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 11788
Country: US
>
> But I couldn't think of a group that would more likely know what Locus
> Address Resolution Protocol (LARP) is. I've been Googling variations and
> cross references for LARP for the past hour and am starting to think it's a
> trick question :). All I can find is all the thousands of RFCs on the AINA
> numbering for it, but not what the protocol does. If anyone can throw me a
> bone, I'd really appreciate it.
I believe it was part of Locus' distributed file system protocol. Try
searching for papers by Geral Popek.
http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/ficus-members/popek/
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