6.3.4RARP
The procedure below enables the RARP daemon running on your system to respond to a RARP request from the print server and to assign the IP address to the print server.
1.Log in the host of RARP server as the superuser (root).
2.Assign a name corresponding to the print server ’s IP address. You can add this address to the /etc/hosts file, by adding a line such as:
203.66.191.12 pserver
3.Add the Ethernet address and the host name for the print server to the /etc/ethers file, by adding a line such as:
00:00:B4:01:01:01pserver
Where the Ethernet address of the print server is the Node ID located on the print server.
4.If your system uses Network Information Services (NIS), you will need to make changes to the NIS host and ethers databases.
5.Check if the RARP daemon is running using the ps and grep commands. If the RARP daemon is not running on your host, type “rarpd
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