diff --git a/Sources/tart/MACAddressResolver/Bootptab.swift b/Sources/tart/MACAddressResolver/Bootptab.swift
index ddeea13..73cfffd 100644
--- a/Sources/tart/MACAddressResolver/Bootptab.swift
+++ b/Sources/tart/MACAddressResolver/Bootptab.swift
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ struct Bootptab {
     }
 
     for line in contents.split(whereSeparator: \.isNewline) {
+      // Skip comment lines
+      guard !line.hasPrefix("#") else {
+        continue
+      }
+
       let fields = line.split(whereSeparator: \.isWhitespace)
 
       // Skip lines that don't look like reservation fields
diff --git a/Tests/TartTests/BootptabTests.swift b/Tests/TartTests/BootptabTests.swift
index bcf8dfa..7984d66 100644
--- a/Tests/TartTests/BootptabTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/TartTests/BootptabTests.swift
@@ -3,6 +3,37 @@ import Network
 @testable import tart
 
 final class BootptabTests: XCTestCase {
+  func testCommentedReservation() throws {
+    let url = FileManager.default.temporaryDirectory.appendingPathComponent(UUID().uuidString)
+    let contents = """
+    %
+    #client1 1 02:ab:00:01:02:03 192.168.64.2
+    """
+    try contents.write(to: url, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
+    defer { try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: url) }
+
+    let bootptab = try XCTUnwrap(Bootptab(url))
+
+    XCTAssertNil(try bootptab.ResolveMACAddress(
+      macAddress: MACAddress(fromString: "02:ab:00:01:02:03")!))
+  }
+
+  func testCommentedReservationWithActiveReservation() throws {
+    let url = FileManager.default.temporaryDirectory.appendingPathComponent(UUID().uuidString)
+    let contents = """
+    %
+    #client1 1 02:ab:00:01:02:03 192.168.64.2
+    client1 1 02:ab:00:01:02:03 192.168.64.3
+    """
+    try contents.write(to: url, atomically: true, encoding: .utf8)
+    defer { try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: url) }
+
+    let bootptab = try XCTUnwrap(Bootptab(url))
+
+    XCTAssertEqual(try bootptab.ResolveMACAddress(
+      macAddress: MACAddress(fromString: "02:ab:00:01:02:03")!), IPv4Address("192.168.64.3"))
+  }
+
   func testResolveMACAddress() throws {
     let url = FileManager.default.temporaryDirectory.appendingPathComponent(UUID().uuidString)