OkiLAN 6200e Plus User’s Guide
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daemon is called
rarpd
. A name can be assigned to
any device on a network and is arbitrary. For the fol-
lowing examples the name used for the Network Print
Server is OKIPRINTER. Remember that this name is
arbitrary; a customer can assign any name.
192.168.42.55 OKIPRINTER
00:02:16:17:50:A4 OKIPRINTER
The following sequence of events occurs during the
power up of the Network Print Server using RARP:
1. The Network Print Server powers up but does not
know its IP address. However, it does know its net-
work hardware address.
2. It sends out a RARP request message with its net-
work hardware address. For this example, the Net-
work Print Server address is 00:02:16:17:50:A4.
3. The rarpd daemon running on a RARP server (in
this example the RARP server is a UNIX worksta-
tion) sees the RARP request along with the net-
work hardware address in the “/etc/ethers” file. The
/etc/hosts:
The “/etc/hosts” file is where
each entry maps a host name
to an IP address. An example
entry is shown below.
/etc/ethers:
The “/etc/ethers” file is where
each entry maps a host
name to a network hardware
address. An example entry is
shown below.
