Brother MFC-9440CN - Manual (Page 25)

Control panel setup
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3
e
Press a or b to choose Auto, Static, RARP, BOOTP or DHCP.
Press OK.
„ If you chose Auto, RARP, BOOTP or DHCP, go to f.
„ If you chose Static, go to g.
f
Enter how many times the machine tries to obtain the IP address. We recommend you to enter 3 or more.
Press OK.
g
Press Stop/Exit.
Auto mode
3
In this mode, the machine will scan the network for a DHCP server, if it can find one, and if the DHCP server
is configured to allocate an IP address to the machine, then the IP address supplied by the DHCP server will
be used. If no DHCP server is available, then the machine will scan for a BOOTP server. If a BOOTP server
is available, and it is configured correctly, the machine will take its IP address from the BOOTP server. If a
BOOTP server is not available, the machine will scan for a RARP server. If a RARP server also does not
answer, the IP Address is scanned through APIPA facility, see Using APIPA to configure the IP
address on page 81. After it is initially powered ON, it may take a few minutes for the machine to scan the
network for a server.
Static mode
3
In this mode the machine’s IP address must be manually assigned. Once entered the IP address is locked to
the assigned address.
RARP mode
3
The Brother print server IP address can be configured using the Reverse ARP (RARP) service on your host
computer. For more information on RARP, see Using RARP to configure the IP address on page 81. This is
done by editing the /etc/ethers file (if this file does not exist, you can create it) with an entry similar to the
following:
00:80:77:31:01:07 BRN310107
Where the first entry is the Ethernet address of the print server and the second entry is the name of the print
server (the name must be the same as the one you put in the /etc/hosts file).
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 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
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 it is powered on.