Installing and Administering Internet Services

192 Chapter 5
Configuring TFTP and BOOTP Servers
Troubleshooting BOOTP and TFTP Servers
If bootpd hasn’t received a bootrequest within time minutes (the
timeout set with the -t option), it issues this message and exits.
• reading configuration_file
reading new configuration_file
bootpd is reading or rereading configuration information from the
indicated configuration_file.
• read number entries from configuration_file
Shows that bootpd successfully read number configuration entries,
including table continuation entries, from the indicated
configuration_file.
• request from hardware address hardware_address
bootpd received a bootrequest from a client with the indicated
hardware_address. This message is logged at debug level 1.
• request from IP addr ip_address
bootpd received a bootrequest from a client with the indicated
ip_address. This message is logged at debug level 1.
• found ip_address hostname
bootpd located information for the specified client in its
configuration database. This message is logged at debug level 1.
• broadcasting reply on ip_address
Shows the broadcast address that bootpd uses to reply to a client
whose configuration entry has the ba flag. This message is logged at
debug level 2.
• vendor magic field is magic_cookie
sending CMU-style reply
sending RFC1048-style reply
Shows which vendor magic cookie was sent in the client’s bootrequest
and the corresponding vendor magic cookie used in the bootreply.
These messages are logged at debug level 2.
• bootptab mtime is time
bootpd uses the indicated modification time to determine if the
configuration file has been modified and should be reread. This
message is logged at debug level 3.