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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
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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
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LAN interface cards 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"
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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