According to man dhcpd a dhcp server can act as a BOOTP server. It seems that if you can get the MAC address of the errant box you can set up a rule in /etc.dhcpd.conf to serve out information for the requesting client to configure its network interface.
for example; fixed-address 127.0.0.1 to shut the damn thing up. Cheers Ross Drummond On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:22, Nick Rout wrote: > Or maybe it is simply a broken machine on their network looking for a > bootp server so it can boot up! > > Isn't that how bootp works? it broadcasts for a bootp server?
