Technical information

m Ve r i fy that the rarpd daemon is running on the server. On many UNIX
systems, you can verify this by typing
ps -e or ps -ax at the UNIX
prompt on the server. If the daemon isn’t running, find the rarpd executable
on your system. It’s usually in
/usr/etc. To start it, type path/rarpd
-a (for example, /usr/etc/rarpd -a) to start the daemon. If you
cannot locate a rarpd executable on your system, you may not have RARP
available. Use BOOTP or some other IP address-setting method.
m Make sure that the server running RARP is on the same subnet as the
printer.
m Check the
/etc/ethers file to verify that it contains the correct
Ethernet address and hostname.
m Check the
/etc/hosts file to verify that it contains a valid IP address
and the same hostname as in the
/etc/ethers file.
m Tur n th e printer off and then back on.
The BOOTP server is not responding.
If you chose to use a BOOTP server to assign the printer’s IP address while
setting up the printer, but the server is not responding, follow these steps
in order:
m Make sure that the server running BOOTP is on the same subnet as the
printer or that BOOTP is properly configured to run on multiple subnets.
m Check the
/etc/bootptab file to verify that
m the
ip entry is a valid IP address and that it matches the address in the
/etc/hosts file
m the
ha entry is the correct Ethernet address (found on the printer’s
startup page) with no colons separating the bytes
m the
ht entry is either ether or ethernet
m Tur n th e printer on and off and immediately verify that the bootpd is
running. On many UNIX systems, you can accomplish this by typing
ps -e or ps -ax at the UNIX prompt on the server. If the daemon is
not running, type
bootpd -t15 or consult the UNIX man page on
bootpd.
m Tur n th e printer off and then back on.
215
Fixing Other Problems