Xerox 840 Manuel D’Utilisation

When you are finished entering the settings, enter the Validation Password 
(if one has been set) and click Do/Apply. 

The printer responds by displaying a dialog box that allows you to reset 
the printer.  The new parameters will not take effect until the printer is 
reset.

This method sets the printer’s IP address until the next printer reset.  Once you have 
used this method to set the printer’s IP address, you can use PhaserLink Printer 
Management Software (see “Setting IP parameters: PhaserLink Printer Management 
Software” on page 73) or a PostScript utility file (see “Setting IP parameters: 
PostScript utility file (UNIX only)” on page 71) to set the address permanently. 

You can enter the printer’s Ethernet address and IP address in your host’s arp table, 
then send a ping command to the printer, and the printer will take it’s IP address 
from the ping packet.  

Make an entry into the host’s ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) table 
defining the printer’s IP/hardware address pair.  In general, this requires a 
command corresponding to one of the following syntax examples:    

Execute the ping command from the host:       

The Phaser 840, 740, and 780 printers support Domain Name Services (DNS) 
through an embedded DNS stub resolver.  The DNS resolver protocol communicates 
with one or more DNS servers to request the IP address for a given host name or the 
host name for a given IP address.  

To use an IP host name for the printer, the system administrator must have already 
configured one or more DNS servers and a local DNS domain name space data base.

printer-name    hardware-address        (for BSD systems)

arp   -s   ether    

printer-name    hardware-address    (for System V)

See the documentation for your host system for specifics of this 
command. 

The hardware address in the arp command example is the printer’s Ethernet 
Address for PhaserShare Ethernet cards or the Token Ring Address for 
PhaserShare Token Ring cards.