Error message in syslog.log

[JI HUI]

Hi,

Running HP-UX 11.0 as DHCP server. and noticed the following messages appeared in the syslog.log file. What could be the causes for such messages?
Mar 14 11:09:02 dhcp02 bootpd[12901]: select timed out, no echo came back.
Mar 14 11:25:09 dhcp02 bootpd[12901]: could not add hardware address: 0400607655F2

thank you.

[Lee Huei]

dhcp02 bootpd[12901]: select timed out, no echo came back.

The message are purely informational and are useful in debugging.

You can get rid of them by installaing the latest DHCP/bootpd patches as below:

PHNE_19241 bootpd(1M)/DHCP cumulative patch

[T G Manikandan]

These messages are informational messages into the syslog.

There was a request for boot from the remote machine/device to this dhcp server and this remote machine ip was not present in the configuration file /etc/bootptab.

The /etc/syslog.conf file would have also
*.info configured to the logged into syslog.

This is just an information message.

[JI HUI]

Thank you.

I just noticed that when there was "dhcp02 bootpd[12901]: could not add hardware address: 0400607655F2" message appeared in the syslog.log, it seemed that DHCP client did not got address. Is this error message indicating an error?

2nd, I have checked patch you mentioned, I have run "what /usr/lbin/bootpd" and it seems that I have patch (PHNE_19241) installed already. If so, is it still normal that I got this message in the syslog.log?

[I.Delic]

hi,

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Idriz

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Ji,

IF you're are not supplying remote boots to other devices then you may wish to turn off bootp by commenting out the following line in /etc/inetd.conf

bootps dgram udp wait /usr/lbin/bootpd bootpd

And then run

inetd -c

Then it will no longer respond to remote boot requests.

HTH,
Jeff

[JI HUI]

Hi Jeff,

Basically, I am running the server as DHCP server which provides IP address to clients in a few IP subnet.

But, no machine will boot from this server.

Do you mean that I could turn off bootpd but still run the server as DHCP server?

thank you.

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

No, bootp and dhcp are using the same daemon and almost the same protocol...

How do you split MAC addresses over the seperate subnets?

[PVR]

If u want to use your DHCP server to assign ip to nodes in the seperate network you need to add relays. this link may help to have a better understanding

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[JI HUI]

The bootp rely is done by the router connecting different network. So, the DHCP server should know which address to assign. But now, I am more interested to know what the meaning of thoes messages.

Thank you.