bootpquery

[Stephen Keane]

It's probably me being a bit dense or something, but I am trying to run bootpquery and all I get back is :

bind: address in use

O/S 11.11 on a B1000 (client) and J5000 (server)

Command I'm running (with MAC/IP changed for security reasons) on the client is

bootpquery 0123456789AB ether -s server_name -f

The client is NOT a DHCP client, but does have an entry in the /etc/bootptab of server_name, which is what I'm trying to test.

The bootpd daemon on server_name is running OK. netstat shows that bootps and bootpc are happy.

The syslog on the server has nothing interesting in it.

[RAC_1]

As bind says that port is in use.
On server check what process is using the port.

[Stephen Keane]

Which port?

on server, netstat -a | grep boot gives

# netstat -a | grep boot
udp 0 0 *.instl_boots *.*
udp 0 0 *.bootps *.*
udp 0 0 *.bootpc *.*
udp 0 0 *.instl_bootc *.*

[Biswajit Tripathy]

But your "netstat -a" output shows that bootpc
(port 68/udp) is bound. My workstation here, which
does not run a DHCP client, and I don't see that line
in "netstat -a" output here.

- Biswajit

[Ermin Borovac · Accepted solution]

Culprit is probably rbootd, which is stealing your bootp client port. I think rbootd is a thing of a past and can be safely disabled.

# /sbin/init.d/rbootd stop

and edit /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons to set START_RBOOTD to 0.

[Stephen Keane]

Spot on Ermin!