Two Methods To Determine The Mac Address - Agilent Technologies 1260 User Manual

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LAN Configuration
Automatic Configuration with BootP

Two Methods to Determine the MAC Address

Enabling logging to discover the MAC address using BootP
If you want to see the MAC address, select the Do you want to log BootP requests?
check box.
1 Open BootP Settings from Start > All Programs > Agilent BootP Service >
2 In BootP Settings... check Do you want to log BootP requests? to enable logging.
3 Click OK to save the values or Cancel to discard them. The editing ends.
4 After each modification of the BootP settings (i.e. EditBootPSettings) a stop
5 Uncheck the Do you want to log BootP requests? box after configuring
Determining the MAC address directly from the LAN Interface card label
1 Turn off the instrument.
2 Read the MAC address from the label and record it.
3 Turn on the instrument.
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EditBootPSettings.
Figure 20 Enable BootP logging
The log file is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Agilent\BootP\LogFile
It contains a MAC address entry for each device that requests configuration
information from BootP.
or start of the BootP service is required for the BootP service to accept
changes. See "Stopping the Agilent BootP Service"
the Agilent BootP Service"
instruments; otherwise, the log file will quickly fill up disk space.
The MAC address is printed on a label on the rear of the module. It is the
number below the barcode and after the colon (:) and usually begins with
the letters AD, see Figure 12
on page 75.
on page 58 and Figure 13
Agilent 1260 Infinity DAD and MWD User Manual
on page 74 or "Restarting
on page 58.