Agilent Technologies N8201A manual How to Troubleshoot Connectivity Problems on the Network

2Hardware Setup and Configuration

How to Troubleshoot Connectivity Problems on the Network

The Synthetic Instrument Finder program is used to find instruments on a network when the N8201A performance downconverter is connected through a router or cross-over cable. There are three possible configurations:

•connecting the PC through a company wide site LAN connection to the N8201A performance downconverter

•connecting the PC to the same private LAN network as the instrument

•connecting the PC directly to the instrument using a cross-over cable - this would typically be used for troubleshooting and is not normally used to control an instrument directly

The N8201A performance downconverter is shipped with a default IP address. This default IP address is 192.168.EE.FF, where EE and FF are the last two parts of the Media Access Control (MAC) address (AA.BB.CC.DD.EE.FF).

How to Determine a PCs Configuration Settings

From a DOS Window

1From the Windows Desktop, click Start > Run.

2At the Open: prompt, type CMD and press Enter to open a DOS window.

3At the command prompt, type ipconfig/all to display the PCs network connection details.

Or,

From the PCs Control Panel

1From the Windows Desktop, click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections.

2From the Network and Internet Connections window, double-click the Local Area Connection.

3In the Local Area Connection Status dialog, click the Support tab and click Details to display the PCs Network Connection Details.

The Network Connection Details include:

•Physical Address

•DHCP status, enabled or disabled (displayed when using the DOS window ipconfig command only)

•Auto configuration enabled or disabled (displayed when using the DOS window ipconfig command only)

•IP Address

•Subnet Mask

60 Agilent N8201A Performance Downconverter Synthetic Instrument Module, 3 Hz to 26.5 GHz