Section 2: Basic Installation
20 AXIS 700 User’s Manual
Send the
Internet Address
to the AXIS 700
You can set the Internet address directly from the AXIS 700 user
interface. On Macintosh systems, you must use this method. See
description later in this section.
Alternatively, you can use one of these methods: ARP, DHCP, RARP
or BOOTP for sending the Internet address to the AXIS 700. The
main characteristics of each method are:
• ARP - available in Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX and OS/2.
Requires the Internet address for each new device to be
downloaded individually. Also, it is not appropriate to use this
method over routers.
• RARP- available in UNIX. Downloads the Internet address to
each device automatically. Requires a RARP daemon on your
system and operates within a single network segment only.
• BOOTP- available in UNIX. Similar to RARP, but operates on
the entire network. Requires a BOOTP daemon on your system.
• DHCP- available in UNIX and Windows NT. It allows for
automatic but temporary assignment of Internet addresses from a
central pool. In the absence of either an active RARP or BOOTP
daemon running on the host, DHCP will, when enabled, cause
the selected host to automatically allocate and download a free
Internet address, default router address and net mask to the
requesting AXIS 700. It also provides validation data that defines
how long the Internet addresses will remain valid.
Procedures for using each of the methods are outlined later in this
section.
Choose the method best suited to your needs. If necessary, the RARP,
BOOTP and DHCP methods can be disabled by editing the
RARPEnable
,
BOOTPEnable
and
DHCPEnable
parameters as described
on page 33.
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