Tektronix Phasershare Printer manual Setting IP parameters arp table entry address gleaning

7 TCP/IP Printer Configuration (All Platforms)

5.When you are finished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password (if one has been set) and click Do/Apply.

6.The printer responds by displaying a dialog box that allows you to reset the printer. The new parameters will not take effect until the printer is reset.

Setting IP parameters: arp table entry (address gleaning)

This method sets the printer’s IP address until the next printer reset. Once you have used this method to set the printer’s IP address, you can use PhaserLink Printer Management Software (see “Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management Software” on page 73) or a PostScript utility file (see “Setting IP parameters: PostScript utility file (UNIX only)” on page 71) to set the address permanently.

You can enter the printer’s Ethernet address and IP address in your host’s arp table, then send a ping command to the printer, and the printer will take it’s IP address from the ping packet.

1.Make an entry into the host’s ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) 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-name hardware-address	(for BSD systems)
		or
arp	-s	ether printer-name 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 cards or the Token Ring Address for

PhaserShare Token Ring cards.

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

Domain Name Services (DNS)

The Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers support Domain Name Services (DNS) through an embedded DNS stub resolver. The DNS resolver protocol communicates with one or more DNS servers to request the IP address for a given host name or the host name for a given IP address.

To use an IP host name for the printer, the system administrator must have already configured one or more DNS servers and a local DNS domain name space data base.

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