Installing and Administering Internet Services

Chapter 5 175

Conﬁguring TFTP and BOOTP Servers

Conﬁguring the BOOTP Server

1. On the host where you conﬁgured bootpd, use bootpquery to send a

boot request to the server. (Type man 1M bootpquery for more

information.) For example, if you conﬁgured bootpd on a system

named myhost, enter:

/usr/sbin/bootpquery 001122334455 -s myhost

A bootrequest is sent to the server, requesting a bootreply for the

client with hardware address 001122334455. The BOOTP server will

not respond to this request, so you will see the following message:

bootpquery:Bootp servers not responding!

2. To see if the BOOTP server was started, on myhost enter the

command:

ps -e | grep bootpd

You should see a bootpd entry.

3. If your system is conﬁgured to use syslogd, bootpd logs informative

messages to the daemon facility. (Type man 1M syslogd for more

information.) In the default conﬁguration, where syslogd sends

daemon information messages to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log,

you should see messages similar to the following:

Dec 13 13:32:22 myhost bootpd[13381]: reading "/etc/bootptab"

Dec 13 13:32:22 myhost bootpd[13381]: read 0 entries from "/etc/bootptab"

Dec 13 13:32:22 myhost bootpd[13381]: hardware address not found: 001122334455

These messages tell you that bootpd was able to read the

conﬁguration ﬁle /etc/bootptab and that it correctly rejected the

test bootrequest that you sent with bootpquery.

Having veriﬁed that bootpd is conﬁgured to start from inetd, you

should add to the conﬁguration ﬁle any BOOTP clients that the system is

to serve, or any BOOTP clients that are to be relayed to another server.

The next section, “Adding Client or Relay Information” on page 176,

describes how to add client information or client relay information and

how to verify that the BOOTP server will respond to the client.