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Appendix A

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If the RARP daemon is not already running, start it (depending on the system the command can be 

rarpd, 

rarpd -a, in.rarpd -a

 or something else; type 

man rarpd

 or refer to your system documentation for 

additional information). To verify that the RARP daemon is running on a Berkeley UNIX

®

-based system, type 

the following command:

ps -ax | grep -v grep | grep rarpd

For AT&T UNIX

®

-based systems, type:

ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep rarpd

The Brother print server will get the IP address from the RARP daemon when the printer is powered on.

Using APIPA to configure the IP address

The Brother print server supports the Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) protocol. With APIPA, DHCP 
clients automatically configure an IP address and subnet mask when a DHCP server is not available. The 
device chooses it's own IP address in the range 169.254.1.0 through to 169.254.254.255. The subnet mask 
is automatically set to 255.255.0.0 and the gateway address is set to 0.0.0.0. 

By default, the APIPA protocol is enabled. If you want to disable the APIPA protocol, you can disable it using 
control panel of the machine. For more information, see 

APIPA on page 18. 

If the APIPA protocol is disabled, the default IP address of a Brother print server is 192.0.0.192. However, 
you can easily change this IP address number to match with the IP address details of your network.

Using ARP to configure the IP address

If you are unable to use the BRAdmin application and your network does not use a DHCP server, you can 
also use the ARP command. The ARP command is available on Windows

®

 systems that have TCP/IP 

installed as well as UNIX

®

 systems. To use arp enter the following command at the command prompt:

arp -s ipaddress ethernetaddress

Where 

ethernetaddress

 is the Ethernet address (MAC address) of the print server and 

ipaddress

 is the 

IP address of the print server. For example:

Windows

®

 systems

Windows

®

 systems require the hash "-" character between each digit of the Ethernet address.

arp -s 192.168.1.2 00-80-77-31-01-07