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- Common problems and ways to work around them:
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- Bootpd complains that it "can not get IP addr for HOSTNAME"
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- If the entry is a "dummy" (not a real host) used only for
- reference by other entries, put '.' in front of the name.
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- If the entry is for a real client and the IP address for
- the client can not be found using gethostbyname(), specify
- the IP address for the client using numeric form.
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- Bootpd takes a long time to finish parsing the bootptab file:
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- Excessive startup time is usually caused by waiting for
- timeouts on failed DNS lookup operations. If this is the
- problem, find the client names for which DNS lookup fails
- and change the bootptab to specify the IP addresses for
- those clients using numeric form.
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- When bootptab entries do not specify an ip address, bootpd
- attempts to lookup the tagname as a host name to find the
- IP address. To suppress this default action, either make
- the entry a "dummy" or specify its IP numeric address.
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- If your DNS lookups work but are just slow, consider either
- running bootpd on the same machine as the DNS server or
- running a caching DNS server on the host running bootpd.
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- My huge bootptab file causes startup time to be so long that clients
- give up waiting for a reply.
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- Truly huge bootptab files make "inetd" mode impractical.
- Start bootpd in "standalone" mode when the server boots.
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- Another possibility is to run one bootpd on each network
- segment so each one can have a smaller bootptab. Only one
- instance of bootpd may run on one server, so you would need
- to use a different server for each network segment.
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- My bootp clients are given responses with a boot file name that is
- not a fully specified path.
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- Make sure the TFTP directory or home directory tags are set:
- :td=/tftpboot: (or)
- :hd=/usr/boot: (for example)
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