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4.5Restoring Factory Settings – User Supplied Mode Limitations
NOTE: In Release 3 and 3.1, there is a known issue that arises if the selected device addressing mode is
4.5.1 Recovering from VMM Reset-to-Default in User-Supplied Mode
After restoring factory defaults, the VMM’s addressing scheme is automatically set to Network DHCP. This causes the network connection between the attached Ethernet devices and the core network to become disabled.
There are three available options to recover from this situation and restore the connection to the core network.
4.5.1.1Resetting Device Addressing Mode Using Device Manager
Device Manager will be able to manage some but not all of the device parameters at this time. The network operator may change the selected device addressing mode via Device Manager to either
4.5.1.2Resetting Device Addressing Mode via Configuration Web Page
Because the factory default settings were restored, the VMM will offer one IP address via DHCP. This address will be in the form 10.xx.yy.10, where xx and yy are based on the transceiver MAC address as described in section 3.2 of this manual. The VMM will be accessible via the 10.xx.yy.9 address. Once an Ethernet device has been attached to the VMM, the configuration web page may be accessed at the 10.xx.yy.9 address and the device addressing mode may be changed to either
Be aware that the access password for the web page will have also been reset.
4.5.1.3Resetting User-Supplied Parameters via Configuration Web Page
If the allowed device addressing modes were restricted to
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