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BOOTP Service

Starting bootpd

To successfully start bootpd, you must have a current and correct

conﬁguration ﬁle for it. The default ﬁle is /etc/bootptab but you may

use an alternate conﬁguration ﬁle by specifying its POSIX ﬁle name on

the command line. Without this conﬁguration ﬁle, bootpd will not be

able to service BOOTP requests.

You can run bootpd under the Internet daemon only. You may not run it

as a standalone server.

Starting bootpd Under inetd

If you are running bootpd with inetd, make certain that you have

edited the inetd conﬁguration ﬁle as explained earlier in this chapter.

There is no special step required of you to start bootpd: When the

Internet daemon is running, it will automatically invoke bootpd when

it gets a connection request for that service. To ﬁnd out how to start

inetd, refer to Chapter 2 , “Internet Daemon.”

Command Line Options for bootpd

You can change the way that bootpd operates by entering the bootpd

command followed by one of the command line options. For example:

:BOOTPD.NET.SYS -d

The options available to you are explained below.

Option Purpose

-t Changes the timeout value for bootpd. The BOOTP

daemon starts when the ﬁrst BOOTP request arrives. If

no other boot request arrives within the default period

of 15 minutes, bootpd ends. If you specify a timeout of 0

minutes, the server will not die until you abort JINETD

or JINETD ends in an error state.

-d Sets the verbosity level for the logging messages

generated by bootpd.

configfile The conﬁguration ﬁle bootpd reads to get conﬁguration

information, expressed in HFS syntax. By default,

bootpd uses /etc/bootptab.