OKI 6200E Manual De Usuario

UNIX BOOTP
If you are running UNIX, try the following methods with 

the BOOTP server (check the documentation for your 

particular UNIX flavor).

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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.

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.