Intermate 100 manual Method Overview

IP Assignments for Initial Contact: Method Overview

12.3.Method Overview

•Delivery from a BOOTP server. Management environments: Novell Netware, AIX, UNIX, AIX, OS/2. Instructions for using BOOTP start on page 93.

•Delivery from an RARP server. Management environments: UNIX only. Instructions start on page 95. The RARP daemon does not work across routers or gateways.

•Dynamic delivery from a DHCP server. This is mainly used to deliver IP addresses to PCs and work-stations, rather than to servers, but can be used to deliver an IP address to a print server such as the Intermate1xx. This can save on the use of valuable IP-addresses. In order to work, the Intermate1xx must have a host name which can be entered in a DNS table.

If you are required by your network administration to let a DHCP server assign an address to the unit, you will need to use a static assignment method (see below) to make initial contact with it, and then enable DHCP afterwards. Instructions start on page 97.

•Static Assignment. Three methods are available for this:

•“ARP and PING” can be used in any of the LAN management environments mentioned, but should not be used if your system administrator requires the use of a BOOTP server or an RARP server. Instructions start on page 98. ARP does not work across routers or gateways.

•The Intermate Management and Configuration Utility (IMCU) can be used in environments running under a Windows operating system (Windows 95/98, NT 4.0, Windows 2000). Instructions start on page 100.

Because the IMCU detects network devices at the hardware level you can set an IP address for a segment unreachable from your work station (as long as there is

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