Using Rarp To Configure The Ip Address; Using Apipa To Configure The Ip Address; Using Arp To Configure The Ip Address - Brother HL-4040CN Network User's Manual

Certain BOOTP host software implementations will not respond to BOOTP requests if you have not included
a download filename in the configuration file. If this is the case, simply create a null file on the host and specify
the name of this file and its path in the configuration file.
As with rarp, the print server will load its IP address from the BOOTP server when the printer is powered on.

Using RARP to configure the IP address

The Brother print server's IP address can be configured using the Reverse ARP (RARP) facility on your host
computer. This is done by editing the /etc/ethers file (if this file does not exist, you can create it) with an
entry similar to the following:
00:80:77:31:01:07
Where the first entry is the Ethernet address of the print server and the second entry is the name of the print
server (the name must be the same as the one you put in the /etc/hosts file).
If the rarp daemon is not already running, start it (depending on the system the command can be rarpd,
rarpd -a, in.rarpd -a or something else; type man rarpd or refer to your system documentation for
additional information). To verify that the rarp daemon is running on a Berkeley UNIX
the following command:
ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep rarpd
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For AT&T UNIX -based systems, type:
ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep rarpd
The Brother print server will get the IP address from the rarp daemon when the printer is powered on.

Using APIPA to configure the IP address

The Brother print server supports the Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) protocol. With APIPA, clients
automatically configure an IP address and subnet mask when a DHCP server is not available. The device
chooses it's own IP address in the range 169.254.1.0 through to 169.254.254.255. The subnet mask is
automatically set to 255.255.0.0 and the gateway address is set to 0.0.0.0.
By default, the APIPA protocol is enabled. If you want to disable the APIPA protocol, you can disable it using
printer control panel. For more information, see Disabling the APIPA protocol on page 33.
If the APIPA protocol is disabled, the IP address of a Brother print server is 192.0.0.192. However, you can
easily change this IP address number to match with the IP address details of your network.

Using ARP to configure the IP address

If you are unable to use the BRAdmin application and your network does not use a DHCP server, you can
also use the ARP command. The ARP command is available on Windows
installed as well as UNIX
arp -s ipaddress ethernetaddress
ping ipaddress
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systems. To use arp enter the following command at the command prompt:
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-based system, type
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systems that have TCP/IP
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