Oki 6200E manual Address Formats

OkiLAN 6200e Plus User’s Guide

Note: Once the Network Print Server has been assigned an IP address, the Network Print Server configuration utility (which is run by accessing the Network Print Server using telnet) or OkiNet for TCP/IP allows you to change and/or make the IP address permanent. This means that a BOOTP server needs to be available only during installa- tion of the Network Print Server.

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.

A name can be arbitrarily assigned to any device on a network. The following examples use the name OKIPRINTER. Remember that this name is arbitrary; a customer can assign any name they wish.

/etc/bootptab: The “/etc/bootptab” file has entries where each entry maps a network hardware address to an IP address.

Example:

OKIPRINTER:\

ht=ether:\

ha=0040681750A4:\

ip=192.168.42.55

The ht signifies hardware type. For the Network Print Server, it will always be ether for an Ethernet device and token for a Token-Ring device. The ha signifies the network hardware address. For BOOTP, the net- work hardware address must be represented without

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