Nortel Networks 1000BASE-ZX, 1000BASE-SX, 1000ASE-XD Appendix F Sample BootP configuration file

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Appendix F

Sample BootP configuration file

This appendix provides a sample BootP configuration file. The BootP server searches for this file, called bootptab (or BOOTPTAB.TXT, depending on your operating system), which contains the site-specific information (including IP addresses) needed to perform the software download and configuration. You can modify this sample BootP configuration file or create one of your own.

A sample BootP configuration file follows:

#The following is a sample of a BootP configuration file that was extracted

#from a Nortel Networks EZ LAN network management application. Note that other BootP daemons can use a configuration file with a different format.

#Before using your switch BootP facility, you must customize your BootP

#configuration file with the appropriate data.

#

#Blank lines and lines beginning with ’#’ are ignored.

#Legend:

#

#first field -- hostname

#	ht -- hardware type
#	ha -- host hardware address
#	tc -- template host (points to similar host entry)
#	ip -- host IP address
#	hd -- bootfile home directory
#	bf -- bootfile
# EZ	dt -- device type
# EZ	fv -- firmware version
# EZ	av -- agent version
#

#Fields are separated with a pipe () symbol. Forward slashes (/) are

#required to indicate that an entry is continued to the next line.

#

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