OKI 6200E Manual De Usuario

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.