For information on setting the printer's IP addressing parameters, see Setting the printer's IP addressing parameters.

IBM TCP/IP Version 2.0 for OS/2 includes BOOTP support. Refer to your TCP/IP documentation for installing and configuring BOOTP on a PC.

In the OS/2 Warp environment, the OS/2 boot server and the printer must be on the same Token Ring.

Edit the hosts file to create an entry that identifies the printer's IP address and the printer object name (to be assigned in the next topic). The hosts file is in C:\TCPIP\ETC.