Brother MFC-820CW - Manual (Page 35)

Control panel setup
4 - 2
4
(For MFC-820CW)
1
Press Menu.
2
Press ▲
or
▼
to select LAN.
Press OK.
3
(For Wired) Press ▲
or
▼
to select TCP/IP(Wired).
(For Wireless) Press ▲
or
▼
to select TCP/IP(WLAN)
Press OK.
4
Press ▲ or ▼ to select BOOT Method.
Press OK.
5
Press ▲ or ▼ to select Auto, Static, RARP, BOOTP or DHCP.
Press OK.
6
Press Stop/Exit.
Auto mode
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 A-3. After it is initially powered ON, it may take a few minutes for the machine to scan the network for
a server.
Static mode
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
The Brother print server IP address can be configured using the Reverse ARP (RARP) service on your host
computer. 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 BRN_310107 (or BRW_310107 for a wireless network)
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).