Re: bootpd not executing.

[ac <aoc2@vii.dyn.ml.org>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Hans Johnson wrote:

> Hi there... I'm having the problem that my 'puter is not responding to the
> bootp requests on my network.  I have the proper lines un-commented in
> inetd.conf, and near as I can tell, my /etc/bootptab file is setup
> correctly.  When i watch the network, I see the broadcast messages from the
> diskless machine.
> 
> My server machine also doubles as an IP Masq dialup router.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Hans

if you're running tcpd, make sure the address "0.0.0.0" is in
/etc/hosts.allow.