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IP Assignments for Initial Contact: Method Overview
12.3. Method Overview
• Delivery from a BOOTP server. Management
environments: Novell Netware, AIX, UNIX, AIX, OS/2.
Instructions for using BOOTP start on page
93 .
• Delivery from an RARP server. Management
environments: UNIX only. Instructions start on page
95 .
The RARP daemon does not work across routers or
gateways.
• Dynamic delivery from a DHCP server. This is mainly
used to deliver IP addresses to PCs and work-stations,
rather than to servers, but can be used to deliver an IP
address to a print server such as the Intermate1xx. This
can save on the use of valuable IP-addresses. In order
to work, the Intermate1xx must have a host name
which can be entered in a DNS table.
If you are required by your network administration to let
a DHCP server assign an address to the unit, you will
need to use a static assignment method (see below) to
make initial contact with it, and then enable DHCP
afterwards. Instructions start on page
97 .
• Static Assignment. Three methods are available for
this:
• “ARP and PING” can be used in any of the LAN
management environments mentioned, but should not
be used if your system administrator requires the use of
a BOOTP server or an RARP server. Instructions start
on page
98 . ARP does not work across routers or
gateways.
• The Intermate Management and Configuration Utility
(IMCU ) can be used in environments running under a
Windows operating system (Windows 95/98, NT 4.0,
Windows 2000). Instructions start on page
100 .
Because the IMCU detects network devices at the
hardware level you can set an IP address for a segment
unreachable from your work station (as long as there is