On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 04:31:36PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > With this one line in /etc/bootptab, > > root@dalton:~# tail --lines=1 /etc/bootptab > sparc2:sa=172.25.2.1:td=/tftpboot:hd=/:bf="AC190202.SUN4C":rp=/export/sparc2/root/: > > bootp complains about the address. > > root@dalton:~# bootpd -d9 > bootpd: info(6): bootptab mtime: Sun Jan 26 15:33:54 2014 > bootpd: info(6): reading "/etc/bootptab" > bootpd: info(6): read 1 entries (1 hosts) from "/etc/bootptab" > bootpd: error(3): bind: Address already in use > > Any ideas of what causes this? How can I find what preempts the address?
IIRC, bootp and DHCP use port 67 (server) and 68 (client). (DHCP is basically an extension of BOOTP, so if you have a DHCP server, then you also have a bootp server). Try running "sudo netstat -nlp|grep :67" to see what's listening on port 67.
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