Oki OKILAN 6100E+ User Manual page 134

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.
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.
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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Example: 00:40:68:17:50:A4
Example: 192.168.42.1