1. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
2. BOOTP (Bootstrap Protocol)
The MFP Server will use the last two methods to obtain its IP address automatically if its IP
address is configured as Auto (0.0.0.0).
11.3.1 DHCP
There are many Unix systems that support DHCP protocol, and the procedures to configure
the DHCP server database are different. Please refer to the manual of Unix for the way to use
different DHCP Server. It is highly recommended that the DHCP server should be located on
the same network as the MFP Server.
11.3.2 BOOTP
If you have the BOOTP daemon, bootpd, running on your UNIX system that is accessible by
the MFP Server, you can use the BOOTP protocol to set up the IP address of the MFP Server.
We recommend that the BOOTP server should be located on the same subnet as the MFP
Server. If you use Network Information Services (NIS) in your system, you may need to
rebuild the NIS map with the BOOTP services 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 MFP 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
77
2. Add an entry to the host
’
s /etc/bootptab file, similar to the following:
hostname:\
