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AirLive WP-201G User Manual

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before doing the following BOOTP configuration. To

rebuild the NIS map, please refer to your system

documentation.

To configure the IP address data for the BOOTP server,

you will need to log in the host of BOOTP server as the

superuser (root). Perform the following steps to add address

entries,

1. Optionally, assign a name corresponding to the print

server’s IP address. You can add this address to the

/etc/hosts file, by adding a line such as:

203.66.191.12

pserver

2. Add an entry to the host’s /etc/bootptab file, similar to

the following:

hostname:\

:ht=1:\

:ha=print_server_ethernet_address:\

:ip=print_server_ip_address:

Lines should be indented with tabs.

Where hostname is the device name of a print server, the

ht=1 tag specifies the hardware type is Ethernet, the ha=

tag specifies the Ethernet address of a print server, which is

the Node ID located on the print server. The ha tag must be

preceded by the ht tag. The ip= tag should correspond to

the IP address you want to assign to the print server.

For example, a print server with the following

configuration:

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