CHAPTER 2 FRONT PANEL SETUP MENU

STATIC mode

In this mode the MFC IP address must be manually assigned. Once entered the IP address is locked to the assigned address.

AUTO mode

In this mode, the MFC 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 MFC, then the IP address supplied by the DHCP server will used. If no DHCP server is available, then the MFC will scan for a BOOTP server. If a BOOTP server is available, and it is configured correctly, the MFC will take its IP address from the BOOTP server. After it is initially powered ON, it may take a few minutes for the MFC to scan the network for a server.

If your MFC supports “POWER SAVE mode” and you are using the AUTO Boot mode, POWER SAVE must be set to OFF.

RARP mode

Brother Print / Fax server IP address can be configured using the Reverse ARP (rarp) facility on your host computer. 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 BRN_310107

Where the first entry is the Ethernet address of the Print / Fax server and the second entry is the name of the Print / Fax 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 (depending 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 the 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 / Fax server will get the IP address from the rarp daemon when it is powered on.

BOOTP mode

BOOTP is an alternative to rarp that has the advantage of allowing configuration of the subnet mask and gateway. In order to use BOOTP to configure the IP address make sure that BOOTP is installed and running on your host computer (it should appear in the /etc/services file on your host as a real service; type man bootpd or refer to your system documentation for information). BOOTP is usually started up via the /etc/inetd.conf file, so you may need to enable it by removing the "#" in front of the bootp entry in that file. For example, a typical bootp entry in the /etc/inetd.conf file would be:

#bootp dgram udp wait /usr/etc/bootpd bootpd -i

Depending on the system, this entry might be called "bootps" instead of "bootp".

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