recommend that the BOOTP server should be located on the same subnet as the print 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 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:
Node ID: 00304F010101 (this implies Ethernet
address is 0304F010101),
IP address: 203.66.191.12
The entry for this print server in the /etc/bootptab file should be:
PS010101:\
:ht=1:\
:ha=00304F010101:\
:ip=203.66.191.12:
6.4 Verify Print Server’s IP Address
To verify that your print server is responding to the newly assigned IP address using a PING
command:
ping ip-address
