Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 4
BOOTP Service
Starting bootpd
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Starting bootpd Under inetd
If you are running bootpd with inetd, make certain that you have edited the inetd configuration file as
explained earlier in this chapter. There is no special step required of you to start bootpd: When the Internet
daemon is running, it will automatically invoke bootpd when it gets a connection request for that service. To
find out how to start inetd, refer to Chapter 2, “Internet Daemon.”
Command Line Options for bootpd
You can change the way that bootpd operates by entering the bootpd command followed by one of the
command line options. For example:
:BOOTPD.NET.SYS -d
The options available to you are explained below.
Option Purpose
-t Changes the timeout value for bootpd. The BOOTP daemon starts when the first BOOTP
request arrives. If no other boot request arrives within the default period of 15 minutes,
bootpd ends. If you specify a timeout of 0 minutes, the server will not die until you abort
JINETD or JINETD ends in an error state.
-d Sets the verbosity level for the logging messages generated by bootpd.
configfile The configuration file bootpd reads to get configuration information, expressed in HFS
syntax. By default, bootpd uses /etc/bootptab.