rbootd daemon

[Camel_1]

Hi there,

I am wondering what is the purpose of rbootd daemon? Our security team is asking to turn of this daemon, is there any impact on HPUX11i?

Thanks,

Simon

[Pete Randall]

Simon,

Take a look at the man page for rbootd. It is highly unlikely that this is used anymore. "Ancient" workstation used it to boot via the RMP protocol. Modern workstations use the bootp protocol and communicate with bootpd.


Pete

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Simon,

Remote Boot Daemon

The rbootd daemon is used for booting some HP workstations over the network (such as the 9000/300 and 9000/400 series). It can also boot PA RISC workstations. It handles the first stage of the boot sequence and can be used to start booting Linux, NetBSD or HPUX.

You can find more information at,

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90692/rbootd.1M.html

-Arun

[Pete Randall]

Literal quote from the man page:

"Later s700 workstations (starting with the s712) use the industry standard BOOTP protocol and communicate with bootpd(1M). Future s700 workstations will use the BOOTP protocol."


Pete

[Camel_1]

thanks guys.