Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Configuring TFTP and BOOTP Servers
Troubleshooting BOOTP and TFTP Servers
Information Log Level
The following messages are logged at the syslogd information log level.
• exiting after time minutes of inactivity
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.