Using Apipa To Configure The Ip Address; Using Arp To Configure The Ip Address; Windows® Systems - Brother HL-5250DN series Network User's Manual

Appendix A
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
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additional information). To verify that the rarp daemon is running on a Berkeley UNIX -based system, type
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, DHCP
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 7-8.
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
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also use the ARP command. The ARP command is available on Windows systems that have TCP/IP
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installed as well as UNIX systems. To use arp enter the following command at the command prompt:
arp -s ipaddress ethernetaddress
Where ethernetaddress is the Ethernet address (MAC address) of the print server and ipaddress is the
IP address of the print server. For example:
Windows® systems
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Windows systems require the dash "-" character between each digit of the Ethernet address.
arp -s 192.168.1.2 00-80-77-31-01-07
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