Oki POCKET PRINT 6010E User Manual page 163

The ht signifies hardware type. For the OkiLAN 6010e,
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 network hardware
address must be represented without the colons between
each byte. The ip part of the entry is where the IP
address is specified. There are several other parameters
that can be specified in a bootptab entry. However, the
three parameters shown here are the only ones required
for OkiLAN 6010e installation.
The following sequence of events occurs during the
power up of the OkiLAN 6010e using BOOTP.
1. An OkiLAN 6010e powers up but does not
know its IP address. (It does know its net-
work hardware address.)
2. The OkiLAN 6010e sends out a BOOTP
request packet with its network hardware
address. For this example, the network
hardware address is 00:40:68:17:50:A4.
3. The bootpd daemon running on a BOOTP
server (which in this example is a UNIX
workstation) sees the BOOTP request along
with the network hardware address. It looks
up the network hardware address in the "/
etc/bootptab" file. The bootpd daemon finds
the associated IP address of the device in the
bootptab file.
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