Axis 5400plus User Manual page 16

Basic Installation
Note:
Set the IP Address
using ARP in
UNIX/Linux and Mac
OS X
Notes:
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• When you execute the ping command for the first time, you will experience a significantly
longer response time than is usual
• The ability to set the IP address with ARP and PING will only be enabled the first 10
minutes after restarting the print server.
• By using the arp -d command, the static entry in the arp table is removed from the
host's cache memory.
1. Open a Terminal and enter the following commands:
Syntax
arp -s <IP address> <Ethernet address>
ping <IP address>
2. The host will return
psname is alive
that the address has been set and that communication is established.
3. Log in to the print server's Web pages (see Using a Web Browser for Print
Server Management, on page 82), select Admin | Network Settings |
Detailed View | TCP/IP Network and define Default Router and Subnet
Mask. Make sure you first set DHCP, Auto-IP, BOOTP and RARP to No!
You have now successfully set the IP address of the print server. Continue
to "Making Network Printers available for printing on your PC" on page
17.
• If the host name has not been mapped to an IP address, simply replace the host name entry
with the IP address.
• The ARP command varies between different UNIX/Linux systems. Some BSD type systems
expect the host name and node address in reverse order. Furthermore IBM AIX systems will
require the additional argument ether.
• When you execute the ping command for the first time, you may experience a
significantly longer response time than is usual
• The ability to set the IP address with ARP and PING will only be enabled the first 10
minutes after restarting the print server.
See Using AXIS ThinWizard for Print Server Management, on page 87 for
instructions on setting IP addresses with AXIS ThinWizard.
.
Example
arp -s 192.168.3.191 00:40:8c:10:00:86
ping 192.168.3.191
, or a similar message. This indicates
.
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