Chapter 3. Configuring Your 8275-416; Configuring Ip Information - IBM 8275 User Manual

Chapter 3. Configuring your 8275-416
After hardware installation, you must configure the IP address for your 8275-416 for
it to be fully manageable in your network with the factory-default configuration. You
might want to change some of the defaults at a later time.
First, you need to decide how you will access your 8275-416 . See "Chapter 2.
Accessing the 8275-416" on page 11 for details about in-band and out-of-band
connectivity. It is assumed that when you come to this chapter you will already have
established connectivity.
Configuring IP information
IP information can be initially assigned either through:
v DHCP or BootP (the default), or
v Terminal interface through the EIA 232 serial port.
Your 8275-416 can be configured from remote locations using DHCP (Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol) or BootP. BootP (documented in RFC 951 and RFC
1542) is a bootstrap protocol used by a diskless workstation to learn its IP address,
the location of its boot file, and the boot server name. The 8275-416 supports
"reserved" or static DHCP, documented in RFC 1541.
If you are using DHCP or BootP, the DHCP or BootP server must be configured
with the appropriate information for the 8275-416 . If you are not using BootP or
DHCP, set the Network Configuration Protocol with a value of None to reduce
network traffic.
When you use DHCP or BootP to get the 8275-416 's IP information, you configure
the Network Configuration Protocol by selecting Server Configuration Menu from
the Management Menu in the Terminal interface, and by defining the values as
shown in Figure 9 on page 18:
© Copyright IBM Corp. 1999
17