Re: New 170 installation and initial setup

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

Reverse ARP is a mechanism to assign an IP address to a system that does
not have one. If I'm not mistaken its covered by an RFC. A client (such
as a PC) uses the MAC address of the server and sends a request that it
assign an itself an IP address. The server (in this case, hopefully, the
AS/400) then assigns itself that IP address. Once it has an IP address
you can telnet, ftp, http, etc. to it. Would be nice to be able to do
this on a new AS/400 instead of having to fiddle with the lame serial
connection from PC5250.

Patrick

Simon Coulter wrote:
> 
> Hello Patrick,
> 
> You wrote:
> >
> > Don't you wish IBM would give us reverse ARP just to get a telnet
> > session going during install ??!!
> >
> 
> Could you explain how you think this would work.  I'm not sure I understand 
>what you mean.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
> 
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