Oki 6200E manual Unix Bootp

OkiLAN 6200e Plus User’s Guide

UNIX BOOTP

If you are running UNIX, try the following methods with the BOOTP server (check the documentation for your particular UNIX flavor).

•Verify that the BOOTP server has reread the “/etc/ bootptab” file when the new entry was added. If the BOOTP server was running when you added the new entries, the server might not have reread the new bootptab file. Try sending the SIGHUP signal to the running BOOTP server. For example, kill - HUP <process id of bootpd> tells it to reread “/etc/ bootptab”. Most BOOTP servers support this option. Check your local BOOTP documentation. If this does not work, restart the BOOTP server (kill and restart the process).

•Some BOOTP servers write their internal bootptab tables to a file when they receive a SIGUSR1 sig- nal. You can check this file to verify that the hard- ware and IP address are correct. You can use the kill command to send signals. For example, kill - USR1 <process id of bootpd>. Check your docu- mentation for more information.

•Check the system’s syslog file. Some BOOTP servers write error messages into the syslog file.

Example:

Sep 6 14:38:43 bootpd[17565]: hardware address not found: 004068175042

This message appears when the BOOTP server receives a request from a device not in its internal bootptab tables.

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