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108 CHAPTER 8: CONFIGURING BRIDGING AND ROUTING
Assigning Addresses
Automatically from
BOOTP Servers
If the network administrator at a central site has configured the BOOTP
server so that your SuperStack II bridge/router is a BOOTP client, then
Internet addresses may have automatically been assigned during the
automatic startup process. In this case, no action on your part is required.
If you are responsible for configuring the boot configuration file on the
BOOTP server so that automatic startup can take place, see Using
Enterprise OS Software.
To verify whether an Internet address was assigned during the
automatic startup process, enter:
SHow -IP NETaddr
If an Internet address is shown, then the SuperStack II bridge/router has
been assigned that address. If an address was not assigned, the
following message is displayed:
No IP address configured
For more information, or if you are unsure if an Internet address has
been assigned, contact the network administrator at the central site or
your network supplier.
Internet addresses are assigned for individual ports. To verify whether
an Internet address was assigned to an individual port, use:
SHow !<port> -IP NETaddr
When the bridge/router is installed for the first time, BOOTP requests
are sent from each connected port requesting a BOOTP server to
provide the SuperStack II bridge/router port with its Internet address
and other configuration information. The ports continue to send
BOOTP requests until the request has been answered. Also, every time
a path comes up, if no Internet address has been previously assigned to
it, BOOTP requests are sent requesting a BOOTP server to provide an
Internet address.
After your bridge/router has been installed for the first time, you can
control how it handles BOOTP requests using parameters in the
BOOTPC Service. For information on this service, see Reference for
Enterprise OS Software.