6.3Setup Printer server’s IP Address

T he pr inter s er ver m us t have a unique IP address in or der to be recognized b y the network .

You can set up the IP addr ess on the var ious Unix s ys tem s us ing an y one of the f ollowing m ethods :

1 . DHCP ( D ynam ic Host Configurati on Protocol)

2 . BOOT P ( Bootstr ap Pr otoc ol)

T he pr inter s er ver will use the last thr ee m ethods to obtain its IP addr ess autom aticall y if its IP address is c onfigured as Auto ( 0 . 0 . 0 . 0) .

6.3.1 DHCP

T here are m an y Unix s ys tem s that s uppor t DHCP pr otoc ol, and the proc edures to c onfigur e the DHCP s er ver databas e ar e different . T his m anual does not descr ibe the DHCP s er ver c onf igur ation on the Unix s ys tem s . It is highl y r ecomm ended that the DHCP s er ver s hould be located on the sam e network as the pr inter s er ver .

6.3.2 BOOTP

If you have the BOOT P daem on, bootpd, running on your UNIX

s ys tem that is acc ess ible b y the pr inter s er ver , you can us e the BOOT P protocol to s et up the IP addr ess of the pr inter s er ver . W e recom mend that the BOOT P s er ver should be loc a ted on the s am e s ubnet as the

pr inter s er ver . If you use Network Inform ation Ser vices ( NIS) in your

s ys tem , you m ay need to r ebuild the NIS m ap with the BOOT P s er vic es bef ore doing the following BOOT P c onf igur ation . T o r ebuild the NIS m ap, pleas e r efer to your s ystem docum entation .

T o configure the IP address data for the BO OT P ser ver , you will need to log in the hos t of BOOT P s er ver as the s uper user (r oot) . Perform the f ollowing s teps to add address entr ies ,

1 . O ptionall y, ass ign a nam e corr es ponding to t he pr inter ser ver s IP addr ess . You c an add this addr ess to the /etc/hosts file, b y adding a line suc h as :

203.66.191.12

pserver

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