HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3

You are now ready to add client or relay information to the configuration file /etc/bootptab.
See “Adding Client or Relay Information” (page 102) for information on adding client or rely
information to the /etc/bootptab file.
NOTE: HP SMH does not add relay information to the configuration file. You must manually
configure relay information on a BOOTP server.
Verifying bootpd Installation
To verify that you have properly configured bootpd to handle boot requests, perform the
following steps:
1. On the host where you configured bootpd, use bootpquery to send a boot request to the
server. For example, if you configure bootpd on a system named myhost, enter the following
command:
/usr/sbin/bootpquery 001122334455 -s myhost
A bootrequest is sent to the server, requesting a bootreply for the client with hardware
address 001122334455. Ensure that the /etc/bootptab file contains the configuration
information for the hardware address queried using bootpquery.
For more information on the bootquery command, type man 1M bootpquery at the
HP-UX prompt.
2. To determine if the BOOTP server is running, type the following command on myhost:
ps -ef | grep bootpd
The following message displays if bootpd is running:
root 20424 494 1 10:51:45 ? 0.00 bootpd
3. If your system is configured to use syslogd, bootpd logs messages to the daemon facility.
For more information, type man 1M syslogd at the HP-UX prompt.
In the default configuration, where syslogd sends daemon information messages to the
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file, the following messages are logged in the
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file:
Mar 23 10:51:09 myhost bootpd[20413]: reading “/etc/bootptab”
Mar 23 10:51:09 myhost bootpd[20413]: read 1 entries from /etc/bootptab”
Mar 23 10:51:09 myhost bootpd[20413]: reading “/etc/dhcpdeny”
Mar 23 10:51:09 myhost bootpd[20413]: error
opening “/etc/dhcpdeny”: No such file or directory
These messages inform that bootpd was able to read the /etc/bootptab configuration
file.
After verifying that bootpd is configured to start from inetd, you can now add to the
configuration file any BOOTP clients that the system is to serve, or any BOOTP clients that are
to be relayed to another server. See “Adding Client or Relay Information” (page 102) for more
information on how to add client information or relay information and how to verify that the
BOOTP server responds to the client.
Adding Client or Relay Information
To allow a client to boot from your local system or to allow a bootrequest to be relayed to the
appropriate boot server, you must add information about the client in the /etc/bootptab file.
bootpd uses the /etc/bootptab file as the database for two types of entries:
• Client entries: These entries contain information that allows the clients to boot from your
system.
• Relay entries: These entries contain information to relay the bootrequest to one or more
BOOTP servers.
102 Configuring the BOOTP and TFTP Servers