Moxa Technologies 5600 user manual Network Settings, Method Function Definition, IP Address

NPort 5600 Series User’s Manual Web Console Configuration

Network Settings

You must assign a valid IP address to NPort 5600 before it will work in your network environment. Your network system administrator should provide you with an IP address and related settings for your network. The IP address must be unique within the network (otherwise, NPort 5600 will not have a valid connection to the network). First time users can refer to Chapter 3, Initial IP Address Configuration, for more information.

You can choose from four possible IP Configuration modes—Static, DHCP, DHCP/BOOTP, and BOOTP—located under the web console screen’s IP configuration drop-down box.

Method	Function Definition
Static	User defined IP address, Netmask, Gateway.
DHCP	DHCP Server assigned IP address, Netmask, Gateway, DNS, and Time
	Server
DHCP/BOOTP	DHCP Server assigned IP address, Netmask, Gateway, DNS, and Time
	Server, or BOOTP Server assigned IP address (if the DHCP Server does not
	respond)
BOOTP	BOOTP Server assigned IP address
IP Address
Setting		Factory Default	Necessity
E.g., 192.168.1.1		192.168.127.254	Required
(IP addresses of the form x.x.x.0 and
x.x.x.255 are invalid.)

An IP address is a number assigned to a network device (such as a computer) as a permanent address on the network. Computers use the IP address to identify and talk to each other over the

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