Compaq 5531, 5532, 5525B user manual Configuration Through the Network with Rarp, 00807200ABCDspike

Chapter 5 Configuring the Internal Ethernet Adapter for TCP/IP

Configuration Through the Network with RARP

The RARP daemon provides a mechanism for dynamic IP address assignment. When a RARP-configured TCP/IP host boots, it broadcasts a RARP request for an IP address. Your network must have this daemon running on some host. If you do not know whether your network has one, ask your system administrator or configure the Internal Ethernet Adapter with one of the other methods in this section.

To configure the Internal Ethernet Adapter with RARP you need to:

1.Make an entry in the /etc/ethers file for the new Internal Ethernet Adapter:

00:80:72:00:AB:CD:spike

entry for the Internal Ethernet Adapter named spike which has this Ethernet address.

2.Start the RARP daemon if it isn’t running. Send a HUP signal to it with the kill command:

kill -HUP pid

3.Power the printer down and then up, wait another ten seconds to allow the RARP process to complete.

4.Test the new IP address by trying a ping with the new IP name: ping ipname

5.[Optional, but recommended] At this point set up the user passwords.

If no response is given by the Internal Ethernet Adapter, the RARP process probably failed. Reboot the unit and try one of the other methods mentioned in this section.

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