Schneider Electric AP9635 Administration Network Features, TCP/IP and Communication Settings

Administration: Network Features

TCP/IP and Communication Settings

TCP/IP settings

Path: Administration > Network > TCP/IP > IPv4 settings

The TCP/IP option on the left navigation menu, selected by default when you choose Network on the top menu bar, displays the current current IPv4 address, subnet mask, default gateway, MAC address, and boot mode of the Management Card.

	For information on DHCP and DHCP options, see RFC2131 and RFC2132.
Setting	Description
Enable	Enable or disable IPv4 with this check box.
Manual	Configure IPv4 manually by entering the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway.
BOOTP	A BOOTP server provides the TCP/IP settings. At 32-second intervals, the Management Card
	requests network assignment from any BOOTP server:
	• If the Management Card receives a valid response, it starts the network services.
	• If the Management Card finds a BOOTP server, but a request to that server fails or times out, the
	Management Card stops requesting network settings until it is restarted.
	• By default, if previously configured network settings exist, and the Management Card receives no
	valid response to five requests (the original and four retries), it uses the previously configured
	settings so that it remains accessible.

Click Next>> to access the BOOTP Configuration page to change the number of retries or the action to take if all retries fail 1:

•Maximum retries: Enter the number of retries that will occur when no valid response is received, or zero (0) for an unlimited number of retries.

•If retries fail: Select Use prior settings (the default) or Stop BOOTP request.

DHCP	The default setting. At 32-second intervals, the Management Card requests network assignment
	from any DHCP server.

•If the Management Card receives a valid response, it does not (as previously) require the APC cookie from the DHCP server in order to accept the lease and start the network services.

•If the Management Card finds a DHCP server, but the request to that server fails or times out, it stops requesting network settings until it is restarted1.

•Require vendor specific cookie to accept DHCP Address: By selecting this check box, you can require the DHCP server to provide a cookie which supplies information to the Management Card.

1.The default values for these three settings on the configuration pages generally do not need to be changed:

•Vendor Class: APC

•Client ID: The MAC address of the Network Management Card, which uniquely identifies it on the local area network (LAN)

•User Class: The name of the application firmware module

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