AXIS 2420 User’s Manual

Troubleshooting

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Appendix A - Troubleshooting

This appendix provides useful information to help you to resolve any difficulty you might have with your AXIS 2420. Symptoms, possible causes and remedial actions are provided in a quick reference table.

PINGing Your IP Address

By sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply, the PING utility can determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It also provides a particularly useful method for confirming addressing conflicts with your AXIS 2420 on the network.

Having disconnected your AXIS 2420, follow the instructions below in association with Symptoms, Possible Causes and Remedial Actions, on page 48, and run PING to troubleshoot TCP/IP problems on your network:

1.Start a Command window.

2.Type ping x.x.x.x, where x.x.x.x is the IP address of the AXIS 2420.

3.If you recieve the reply destination host unreachable, then the AXIS 2420 is not accessible on your subnet. You must obtain a new IP address and reinstall the unit.

4.If this does not solve the problem, disconnect the AXIS 2420 from the network and run the PING command again. See the table below for an interpretation of the results.

PING Reply

Interpretation and recommendation

 

 

Reply from <IP address>: bytes = 32;

The IP address is already used and cannot be used again. You must obtain a

time = 10 ms

new IP address.

Request timed out

This IP address is not used and is available for use with your AXIS 2420. If

 

you set the IP address previously, the installation might not have been

 

performed correctly. In this case, reinstall the unit. Also check all cabling.

 

 

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Axis Communications AXIS 2420 user manual Appendix a Troubleshooting, PINGing Your IP Address, New IP address