Using The Agilent Bootp Service; What Is The Agilent Bootp Service - Agilent Technologies Cary 8454 Installation Manual

6 LAN Communication, Installation, Connection and Configuration

Using the Agilent BootP Service

Using the Agilent BootP Service

What is the Agilent BootP Service?

If the system is on an isolated LAN and the default IP address 192.168.254.11 for the
NOTE
spectrophotometer is used, BootP is not necessary.
The Agilent Bootstrap Protocol Service, acronym BootP Service, provides
central administration of IP addresses for Agilent instruments on a LAN. The
service runs on the instrument LAN PC, which must be running TCP/IP
network protocol and cannot run a DHCP server/service or another BootP
Service.
When an instrument is powered on, an Agilent LAN interface card in the
instrument broadcasts a request for an IP address or Host Name and provides
its hardware address as an identifier. The request may continue for up to 5
minutes. The Agilent BootP Service answers this request and passes a
previously defined IP address and Host Name associated with the hardware
address to the requesting instrument.
In case of the instrument on the LAN, the G1369C LAN card used to connect
the spectrophotometer to the LAN does not store any settings, so each time
the instrument is powered on the card sends a request to the network for an IP
address and setting information. The implementation of the BootP protocol on
the G1369C LAN card conforms to RFC 951 and RFC 1048.
In order to provide this information to the card, the BootP Service must be
operational before the card sends the request and the BootP Service must be
configured to know the hardware address (also calle
acronym M
can be configured by means of a single BootP Service.
If your network is already using a BootP Service, please refer to section
"Configuring the G1369C LAN Card Using BootP" on page 89. If you do not
have a BootP Service, we suggest to use the Agilent BootP Service program
supplied on the Agilent UV-Visible ChemStation DVD.
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