The file /etc/bootptab is the database for bootpd. Blank lines and lines beginning with '#' are ignored. The first section of the file contains default parameters, one per line. The first parameter is the default directory of the bootfiles. The second parameter is the name of the default bootfile. A line beginning with '%%' marks the end of the parameter section.
The remainder of the file contains one line per client interface, with the information show below. The 'host' name is also tried as a suffix for the 'bootfile' when searching the home directory, e.g. 'bootfile.host'. For 10MB Ethernet 'htype' is always '1'.
tc101g 1 02:60:8c:06:35:05 36.44.0.65 seagate
The -d flag, enables debugging output.
/etc/bootptab