receiving bootp/ioctl errors in syslog... what to do?

[Richard Woolley]

hi,

we have had a major network upgrade last weekend to gigabit switches and I have asked my network team to set the ports on the unix servers to 100FD. Since then on 1 server there are entries logged into the syslog for the last 3 days since that say the following.

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Mar 18 02:22:46 jupiter bootpd[25831]: ioctl: Invalid argument
Mar 18 02:22:54 jupiter bootpd[25838]: bootpd 2.4 #1.17.213.3: Thu Oct 23 19:47:23 GMT 1997
Mar 18 02:22:54 jupiter bootpd[25838]: ioctl: Invalid argument
Mar 18 02:22:54 jupiter inetd[1489]: bootps/udp: Exit status 1
Mar 18 02:22:55 jupiter above message repeats 25 times
Mar 18 02:22:54 jupiter syslog: received short packet from 101.95.0.1
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I will attach the full syslog!

any suggestions as to what is going on would be appreciated!

[T G Manikandan]

you need to install patch PHNE_19241 for hpux11.0

If you are not using bootp then you can comment out the entry in /etc/inetd.conf file so that those messages do not arise.

#bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/bootpd bootpd

Then re-read the configuration file using

#/usr/sbin/inetd -c


Thanks