networking: bootpd

[Wilmar Ricio]

Hi Folks,
I'm running HP10.20 on a A-Class machine. Using this as a test box.
Sometimes this box just disconnects from the network.
I got this error from the syslog file.

bootpd[1170]: Exiting after 500 minutes of inactivity

Thanks for your help.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Wilmar:

The bootpd message is unrelated. It simply means that it has not received any requests from a bootp client in a configurable period of time. If you are not using your A-box as a bootd or DHCP server, you can disable bootp in /etc/initd.conf by putting a '#' at the beginning of the line. You then execute inetd -c and bootpd will not be spawned.

This will not fix your network problem; you will need to dif deeper for that.

Regards, Clay

[Frank Li]

Yes, Clay is right . If the bootpd daemon hasn't got any bootp request from the client for default 500 minutes , it will exit . You can also change the default by using the "-t" option .

man bootpd

will give you deatil information .