Edimax Technology PS-3103P User Manual

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server should be located on the same subnet as the

PrintSir. 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 super user (root). Perform the following

steps to add address entries,

1. Optionally, assign a name corresponding to the

PrintSir’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 PrintSir,

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

the ha= tag specifies the Ethernet address of a PrintSir,

which is the Node ID located on the PrintSir. The ha

tag must be preceded by the ht tag. The ip= tag should

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