Field Controls 10 Assigning an IP address on a FieldCommander, Configure IP address with browser

Hardware Platform 10 Installation Guide

For FieldCommander controllers:

Assigning an IP address on a FieldCommander

The factory default IP address of the controller is: 10.0.0.1 with netmask 255.0.0.0.

This address will suffice when you have a point-to-point connection with the controller or when the local network ID is "10". In this case the host ID of the controller already fits in in the range from 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255. In any other case you'll have to assign your controller a new IP address.

Configure IP address with browser

The normal way is to change the IP address, netmask and/or default gateway is from a web browser. For this to work, the computer with the browser must be on the same subnet. When this is not the case you can force the controller to accept a new IP address by way of ARP and PING commands, see later this chapter.

To open the configuration pages of FieldCommander, start your web browser and enter FieldCommander's IP address in the location/address field: http://10.0.0.1/admin/

The Login page should now appear:

When the above page does not appear, test the connection with PING (see next chapter).

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