Network User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- NETWORK USER’S GUIDE
- Definitions of warnings, cautions, and notes
- Compilation and publication notice
- IMPORTANT NOTE
- Brother numbers
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Configuring your machine for a network with an Ethernet cable connection (DCP-J715W, MFC-J615W and MFC-J630W only)
- Overview
- IP addresses, subnet masks and gateways
- Step by step chart
- Setting up the IP address and subnet mask
- Changing the print server settings
- Using the BRAdmin Light utility to change the print server settings
- Using the BRAdmin Professional 3 utility to change the wireless settings (Windows®)
- Using the Remote Setup to change the print server settings (MFC-J615W and MFC-J630W only) (Not available for Windows Server® 2003/2008)
- Using the control panel to change the print server settings
- 3 Configuring your machine for a wireless network
- Overview
- Wireless network terms and concepts
- Step by step chart for wireless network configuration
- Confirm your network environment
- Confirm your wireless network setup method
- Configuration using the machine’s control panel Setup Wizard to configure your wireless network machine
- Configuration using the WPS/AOSS™ control panel menu (Infrastructure mode only)
- Configuration using the PIN Method of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (Infrastructure mode only)
- Configuration using the Brother installer application on the installation CD-ROM to configure your wireless network machine
- Configuring your machine for a wireless network
- Using the Setup Wizard from the control panel
- Using WPS or AOSS™ from the control panel menu to configure your machine for a wireless network
- Using the PIN Method of Wi-Fi Protected Setup
- Using the Brother automatic installer application on the installation CD-ROM to configure your machine for a wireless network
- 4 Wireless configuration using the Brother installer application
- 5 Control panel setup
- Network menu
- Restoring the network settings to factory default
- Printing the Network Configuration List
- Printing the WLAN Report
- 6 Driver Deployment Wizard (Windows® only)
- 7 Network printing from Windows® basic TCP/IP Peer-to-Peer printing
- 8 Network printing from a Macintosh
- 9 Troubleshooting
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Index
Appendix A
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A
Using ARP to configure the IP address A
If you are unable to use the BRAdmin application and your network does not use a DHCP server, you can
also use the ARP command. The ARP command is available on Windows
®
systems that have TCP/IP
installed as well as UNIX
®
systems. To use ARP enter the following command at the command prompt:
arp -s ipaddress ethernetaddress
Where ethernetaddress is the Ethernet address (MAC address) of the print server and ipaddress is the
IP address of the print server. For example:
Windows
®
Windows
®
systems require the dash “-” character between each digit of the MAC Address (Ethernet
Address).
arp -s 192.168.1.2 00-80-77-31-01-07
UNIX
®
/Linux
®
Typically, UNIX
®
and Linux
®
systems require the colon “:” character between each digit of the MAC
Address (Ethernet Address).
arp -s 192.168.1.2 00:80:77:31:01:07
Note
You must be on the same Ethernet segment (that is, there cannot be a router between the print server and
operating system) to use the arp -s command.
If there is a router, you may use BOOTP or other methods described in this chapter to enter the IP address.
If your Administrator has configured the system to deliver IP addresses using BOOTP, DHCP or RARP
your Brother print server can receive an IP address from any one of these IP address allocation systems.
In which case, you will not need to use the ARP command. The ARP command only works once. For
security reasons, once you have successfully configured the IP address of a Brother print server using the
ARP command, you cannot use the ARP command again to change the address. The print server will
ignore any attempts to do this. If you wish to change the IP address again, use factory reset the print server
(which will then allow you to use the ARP command again).
To configure the print server and to verify the connection, enter the following command ping ipaddress
where ipaddress is the IP address of the print server. For example, ping 192.189.207.2.