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- From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Bootp Help
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.223503.3119@netcom.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:35:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec27.112711.16364@dec8.ncku.edu.tw>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- saint@eeup1 (Ming-Jer Lee) writes:
- :
- : Dear netters,
- :
- : I use sun 630mp(sunos4.1.2) to be a bootp server, it works fine. But recently
- : there is a message 'Hardware Address xxxxxxxxxxxx not found in bootp table'. In
- : fact, the bootp server services only 50 diskless PCs and the hardware address
- : is not belong to those PCs.
- :
- : I add the entry to the bootp table, so that the bootp daemon doesn't produce
- : the message again. But when I remove that entry, the same message appear again.
- : That is, there is one machine always send bootp request, but I can't find which
- : device sends the bootp request. The message repeats 1000+ times per day in my
- : /var/adm/messages. Can someone help me?
- :
- : --
- : saint@mail.ncku.edu.tw
- :
- : National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
-
- Once the system appears to be up and working (I realize you don't
- know which one it is) you can use the arp -a command to find
- out what the IP address is that is associated with this hardware
- address, or you should be able to check the /etc/ethers or ethers from
- NIS - aka YP.
-
- --
- Mary E. S. Morris | The future exists first in imagination, then
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