4.4.1
Connecting and Configuring an Ethernet Edge-device with
the Layer 3 Addressing Mode)
The FM2200 unit has two Ethernet ports. On the other hand, FM1100 pro-
vides a single Ethernet port. These ports can be used to connect Ethernet
edge devices, such as IP cameras, video-encoders, DVR, VoIP phone, etc.
By default, each Ethernet port of the FMunit is provided with an IP address
of class A.
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Specifically:
IP Address
Netmask
Ethernet port
#1
1.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
Ethernet port
#2
2.0.0.1
255.0.0.0
In the default configuration, any Ethernet device connected to the FM2200
should use an IP address of class A which must be set according to the
following table:
IP Address
Netmask
Default Gateway
Camera
#1
1.
a.b.c
255.0.0.0
1.0.0.1
Camera
#2
2.
a.b.c
255.0.0.0
2.0.0.1
where
a
,
b
,
c
correspond to the digits that form the unit ID of the FMunit to
which the camera is attached.
Therefore, to make the network operational, you can simply look at the unit
ID of each FMunit and configure the related Ethernet device according to
the procedure described above. No additional configuration is required.
Manually setting the IP address of each FMunit Ethernet port is possible
through the Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) as discussed in
Section 5.17.
Multicast Streaming
To enable multicast video-streams from IP cameras or video-encoder, no
multicast group setting is required. Every multicast packet will be forwarded
by the
Mesh Point
unit towards the closest
Mesh End
unit.
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Please refer to the configuration of Ethernet port
#1
for FM1100.
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