Control panel setup
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ePress a or b to choose Auto, Static, RARP, BOOTP or DHCP.
Press OK.
If you chose Auto, RARP, BOOTP or DHCP, go to f.
If you chose Static, go to g.
fEnter how many times the machine tries to obtain the IP address. We recommend you to enter 3 or more.
Press OK.
gPress Stop/Exit.
Auto mode 3
In this mode, the machine will scan the network for a DHCP server, if it can find one, and if the DHCP server
is configured to allocate an IP address to the machine, then the IP address supplied by the DHCP server will
be used. If no DHCP server is available, then the machine will scan for a BOOTP server. If a BOOTP server
is available, and it is configured correc tly, the machine will take its IP address from the BO OTP server. If a
BOOTP server is not a vailable, the machine will sc an for a RARP server. If a RARP server also does not
answer, the IP Address is scanned through APIPA facility, see Using APIPA to configure the IP
addresson page 79. After it is initially powered ON, it may take a few minutes for the machine to scan the
network for a server.
Static mode 3
In this mode the machine’s IP address must be manually assigned. Once entered the IP address is locked to
the assigned address.
RARP mode 3
The Brother print server IP addr ess can be configured using the Rev erse ARP (RARP) service on your h ost
computer. For more information on RARP, see Using RARP to configure the IP address o n page 79. This is
done by editing the /etc/ethers file (if this file does not exist, you can create it) with an entry similar to the
following:
00:80:77:31:01:07 BRN310107
Where the first entry is the Ethernet ad dress of the print server and the second ent ry is the name of the print
server (the name must be the same as the one you put in the /etc/hosts file).
If the rarp daemon is not already running, start it (d epending on the system the command can be rarpd, rarpd
-a, in.rarpd -a or something else; type man rarpd or refer to your system documentation for additional
information). To verify that th e rarp daemon is running on a Berkeley UNIX® based system, type the following
command:
ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep rarpd
For AT&T UNIX® based systems, type:
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep rarpd
The Brother print server will get the IP address from the rarp daemon when it is powere d on.