Assigning Ip Addresses Using The Agilent Bootp Service - Agilent Technologies 1200 Infinity Series User Manual

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LAN Configuration
Automatic configuration with Bootp

Assigning IP Addresses Using the Agilent BootP Service

The Agilent BootP Service assigns the Hardware MAC address of the
instrument to an IP address.
Determining the MAC address of the instrument using BootP Service
1 Power cycle the Instrument.
2 After the instrument completes self- test, open the log file of the BootP
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Status: BootP Request received at outermost layer
Status: BootP Request received from hardware address: 0010835675AC
Error: Hardware address not found in BootPTAB: 0010835675AC
Status: BootP Request finished processing at outermost layer
3 Record the hardware (MAC) address (for example, 0010835675AC).
4 The Error means the MAC address has not been assigned an IP address
5 Close the log file before turning on another instrument.
6 Uncheck the Do you want to log BootP requests? box after configuring
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Service using Notepad.
• The default location for the logfile is C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Agilent\BootP\LogFile.
• The logfile will not be updated if it is open.
The contents will be similar to the following:
and the Tab File does not have this entry. The MAC address is saved to
the Tab File when an IP address is assigned.
instruments to avoid having the logfile use up excessive disk space.
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