Oki 6100E+ manual Address Formats

Section 4 - Appendix B - Application Considerations

(which may be a UNIX workstation) will respond with an IP address. The device will then know its IP address and use this address to perform subsequent TCP/IP transactions.

Note: Once the OkiLAN 6100e+ has been assigned an IP address, the OkiLAN 6100e+ configuration utility (which is run by accessing the OkiLAN 6100e+ 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 installation of the OkiLAN 6100e+.

Address Formats

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

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

IP addresses are 32-bits and are expressed in 4 bytes (decimal format) usually separated by periods. Each decimal byte has a range from 0 to 255.

Example: 192.168.42.1

Configuration File

The purpose of BOOTP is to look up a 32-bit IP address given a 48-bit network hardware address. The BOOTP server (which is usually a UNIX workstation running a bootpd daemon) performs this function using one configuration file and one or more daemons. The configuration file is “/etc/bootptab” and the daemon is called bootpd.

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