bootpc [--bootfile file] [--dev
device] [--verbose] [--debug] [--server
addr] [--hwaddr addr] [--returniffail]
[--waitformore length] [--in2host addr]
[--serverbcast] [--help]
This manual page documents briefly the bootpc command. This
manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but
may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual
page.
bootpc is a boot protocol client used to grab the machine's
IP address, set up DNS nameservers and other useful information.
- --bootfile
file
- Tell the server to use file as the boot file.
- --dev
device
- Use device to communicate with the server.
- --verbose
- Be verbose.
- --debug
- Produce debugging output.
- --server
addr
- Use the IP address addr to communicate with the server.
- --hwaddr
addr
- Use addr as our hardware address rather than what the operating
system gives us.
- --returniffail
- Terminate the program if a failure occurs. By default bootpc will
ask the user to press a key if the request did not succeed.
- --waitformore
length
- Wait for more responses when one is received. bootpc will wait for
at most length seconds. This is probably only useful for
debugging.
- --in2host
addr
- Takes an address and returns useful bits of the name after lookup, this
was a separate program, but it is more compact to have both together.
- --serverbcast
- Tell the server to send back a broadcast reply. This is necessary on
Linux 2.1 and 2.2.
- --help
- Display the usage of bootpc.
This manual page was written by Herbert Xu
<herbert@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others).