BOOTPD(8) — UNIX Programmer’s Manual

NAME

bootpd − boot protocol daemon

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/bootpd [ -d ]

DESCRIPTION

Bootpd is the bootstrap protocol server daemon described in RFC 951. It is used by diskless hosts to resolve their protocol addresses and to determine what bootfile to netload. Bootpd is normally run as a subprocess of inetd(8) daemon.

The file /etc/bootptab is the database for bootpd. Blank lines and lines beginning with ’#’ are ignored. The first section of the file contains default parameters, one per line. The first parameter is the default directory of the bootfiles. The second parameter is the name of the default bootfile. A line beginning with ’%%’ marks the end of the parameter section.

The remainder of the file contains one line per client interface, with the information show below. The ’host’ name is also tried as a suffix for the ’bootfile’ when searching the home directory, e.g. ’bootfile.host’. For 10MB Ethernet ’htype’ is always ’1’.

# host htype haddr iaddr bootfile

tc101g 1 02:60:8c:06:35:05 36.44.0.65 seagate

The −d flag, enables debugging output.

AUTHOR

Bill Croft, SUMEX-AIM project, Stanford University

FILES

/etc/bootptab