bootpd[1253]: Discarding BOOTREQUEST. (syslog.log)

[Manuales]

Into the syslog.log file i saw the following message, what does it mean?

Aug 23 10:35:13 server1 bootpd[1253]: Discarding BOOTREQUEST. Could not decode packet.
Aug 23 10:35:13 server1 bootpd[1253]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable option length (89 octe
ts)

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The DHCP server logs the following error message in the "/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log" file when the length of the vendor option is greater than 80 characters: "Option 43: Client specified unacceptable option length"

There is a patch for 11.23

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=pdb_na-PHNE_32675-1

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

and have a look at this doc.

Title: bootpd: Error confuses customers
Document ID: ucr_na-KMN8606438337_ssb-1
Last Modified Date: Wed May 02 07:00:00 CEST 2007

US
http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en&docId=emr_na-c00916568-3

Robert-Jan

[Manuales]

server02:

HP-UX server02 B.10.20 (version)

what is a DHCP server?

[VK2COT]

Hello,

Option 43 is a vendor specific option for bootp/dhcp and is implemented differently for each vendor.

Two possibilities:

a) The client is a non-HP client and the
bootpd is only aware of HP specific options.
In that case, the choices are:

1. Configure the HP bootpd with the specific option available for that client (if possible),

or

2. Modify the client bootp to not use that particular option.

For more information on vendor specific options, one of the nice references is:

http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/bootp/op tions.htm

b) Bug in HP-UX.

There are several references to HP-UX 11.23:

SR:8606438337 CR:JAGaf96426
SR:8606426117 CR:JAGaf85598

PHNE_32675 addresses it (as Robert already mentioned before me).

Cheers,

VK2COT