After you have chosen “Static IP”, the display prompts you to enter an address. Use the and buttons to move the cursor.

Hit Select to pick a number. And then use the and buttons to cycle through the numbers 0 through 9. To save the changed value, press the Select button. To revert to the previous value, press the Menu button.

Ethernet IP address:

￿192.000.000.000

After you have finished entering the IP address, scroll the cursor off the end – this brings up the “Network Subnet Mask” screen. Using the same procedure as entering the IP address, enter the subnet mask.

Network Subnet Mask:

￿255.255.255.000

The final value you must enter is the “Ethernet Gateway”. If the RamSan is on a private network and this value is not needed, enter the value “000.000.000.000” to tell the RamSan to ignore this entry.

Ethernet gateway:

￿192.168.111.001

The next screen commits the changes and automatically restarts the network.

You should witness the network restarting.

The final screen displays the assigned IP address

Assign Static IP?

Yes No

Restarting Network... Done

New IP Address: 192.168.111.101

The RamSan-500 comes from the factory using DHCP as its IP address method. To configure your DHCP server you may need to know the RamSan’s hardware MAC address. Follow the instructions below to get the MAC address and to set up your system to use DHCP:

From the “Network Config” sub-menu select the “Show Current Config” option.

Use the button to scroll to the bottom of the screen. This will display 6 octets of the hardware

Network Config:

￿Show Current Config

Hardware Address: ￿ a2:78:90:f7:01:88

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