Tektronix Phasershare Printer manual Setting IP parameters PhaserLink Printer Management Software

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4.Log in as root.

5.Make an entry into the host’s ARP table defining the printer’s IP/hardware address pair. In general, this requires a command corresponding to one of the following syntax examples:

arp	-s	printer-IP-address hardware-address	(for BSD systems)
		or
arp	-s	ether printer-IP-address hardware-address (for System V)

See the documentation for your host system for specifics of this command.

N O T E

The hardware address in the arp command example is the printer’s Ethernet

Address for PhaserShare Ethernet interfaces or the Token Ring Address for

PhaserShare Token Ring cards.

6.Turn on the printer.

7.Execute the ping command from the host: ping printer-IP-address

8.Use the host spooling system (for example, lpr or lp) to send the file you created in Step 2b to the printer. This stores the IP addressing information in the printer’s internal memory, where it is retained over a reset or power cycle. (For more information on setting up queues, see “Assigning a print queue to the printer” on page 83.)

9.Reset the printer. For more information about resetting the printer, see Chapter 16, “Resetting the Printer”.

Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software

After setting the printer’s IP address by one of the methods described previously in this chapter, you can perform the rest of the TCP/IP configuration using PhaserLink Printer Management Software, if you have a World Wide Web browser. For more information on PhaserLink software, see Chapter 12, “PhaserLink Printer Management Software”.

1.From the printer’s home page, click Configuration; this displays the View and Configure Settings page.

2.From the View and Configure Settings page, click View and Configure Interface Settings; this displays the View and Configure Interface Settings page.

3.From the View and Configure Interface Settings page, click View and Configure TCP/IP Settings; this displays the View and Configure TCP/IP Settings page.

4.Enter your printer’s settings. If you make an error, click Restore Initial Form Values and start again.

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