Messages in syslog.log - what are they ?

[Simon R Wootton]

I'm getting the following messages in syslog, has anyone seen anything similar, or shed light on what they are ? Is it a problem ?

Dec 2 15:43:08 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )
Dec 2 15:45:05 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )
Dec 2 15:45:07 rp7410 above message repeats 20 times
Dec 2 15:45:08 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )
Dec 2 15:49:29 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )
Dec 2 15:49:32 rp7410 above message repeats 82 times
Dec 2 15:49:39 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )
Dec 2 15:50:24 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )
Dec 2 15:50:28 rp7410 above message repeats 27 times
Dec 2 15:50:45 rp7410 bootpd[20512]: Option 43: Client specified unacceptable )

All help rewarded
Many thanks
Simon

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Your machine is receiving bootp requests from some other machine on the network.

Is the machine with these messages a bootp server? If it isn't I would disable bootp in /etc/inetd.conf and then do an 'inetd -c' so it stops listening on that port.

If this machine is a bootp server, then you'll need to try to figure out where these messages are coming from so the request can be validated or turned off, whichever is appropriate.

[Geoff Wild]

Take a look at this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=961384

Maybe try restarting inetd: inetd -c

Rgds...Geoff

[Jayasuntar]

Hi Simon,

Your server is configured for bootb services. One of the client in your network is sending bootb request to this server. But the client is not allowed or not configured to access the service from this server. So that u r getting this error. Please use some utility like tcpdump to find out the client.

If u dont want bootb service on ur server, please comment (#) the line in /etc/inetd.conf which starts with bootbd.
And then run inetd -c command to restart the inetd services.

Regards

Jay