Oki 6010E manual Assigning the OkiLAN 6010e IP Address with Bootp, Address Formats

Section IV - TCP/IP

Assigning the OkiLAN 6010e IP Address with BOOTP

BOOTP is an acronym for BOOTStrap Protocol. Every TCP/IP network device is required to have a unique 32- bit IP address assigned to it. TCP/IP network devices will have both an IP address and a 48 bit Ethernet/ Token-Ring (network hardware) address. Ethernet addresses usually cannot be configured and are hard coded by the manufacturer of the device. BOOTP is a protocol used by devices that know their network hardware address, but do not know their IP address. When powering up on a network, a device that uses BOOTP will broadcast its network hardware address in a BOOT request packet. A BOOTP server (which may be a UNIX workstation) will respond with an IP ad- dress. The device will then know its IP address and use this address to perform subsequent TCP/IP transactions.

Note: Once the OkiLAN 6010e has been assigned an IP address, the OkiLAN 6010e configuration utility (which is run by accessing the OkiLAN 6010e using telnet) or OkiNet for TCP/IP will allow you to change and/or make the IP address permanent. This means that a BOOTP server needs to be available only during instal- lation of the OkiLAN 6010e.

Address Formats

Network hardware addresses are 48-bits and are ex- pressed in 6 bytes (hexadecimal format) usually sepa- rated by colons. Each hexadecimal byte has a range from 00 to FF.

Example: 00:40:68:17:50:A4

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