Mediatrix C7 Series – Digital Gateway
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Powering on the Mediatrix C7
Series
This chapter describes the initial provisioning of the Mediatrix C7 Series.
IP Address Discovery or Configuration
This section describes how to contact the Mediatrix C7 Series's management interface to start with unit
configuration.
Note that the Mediatrix C7 Series IPv6 interface is disabled by default.
Dynamic IPv4 Address Discovery
The default configuration is set so that the unit can be directly plugged into a network and provisioned with a
DHCP server. Media5 strongly recommends to set your DHCP server before installing the unit on the network.
This way, you know the IP address associated with a particular unit.
See the
Software Configuration Guide
for more details on how to set an external DHCP server.
DHCP servers generally allocate a range of IP addresses for use on a network and reserve IP addresses for
specific devices using a unique identifier for each device. The Mediatrix C7 Series unique identifier is its media
access control (MAC) address. You can locate the MAC address as follows:
It is printed on the label located on the bottom side of the unit.
It is stored in the
System Information
page of the web interface.
P address, you can discover which IP address has been assigned to the Mediatrix C7 Series by either:
taking one of the telephones connected to the Mediatrix C7 Series and dialing
*#*0
on the
keypad. The current IP address of the Mediatrix C7 Series (static or DHCP) will be stated.
consulting your DHCP server's logs to find out details on the DHCP lease that was given to the
Mediatrix C7 Series.
using a network packet sniffer (e.g., Wireshark) to examine the DHCP messages exchanged
between the Mediatrix C7 Series and your DHCP server while the Mediatrix C7 Series boots
up.
Caution:
If you set a Mediatrix C7 Series with a static
eth1-4
IPv4 address in a subnet (for instance,
192.168.200.1) and the
eth5
interface receives a dynamic IP address in the same subnet (via a DHCP
server or PPP peer), you will not be able to contact the unit via the WAN. You must be careful that a dynamic
IP address does not overlap a static IP subnet that is already configured. Note that the current default value
of the Mediatrix C7 Series is 192.168.0.10.
Caution:
If you are experiencing problems, or if you do not want to use a DHCP server and use a static IP
address instead, perform a Partial Reset procedure, as explained in
.
Summary of Contents for Mediatrix C710
Page 6: ...Contents vi Mediatrix C7 Series...
Page 12: ...Preface About this Manual End User Technical Support xii Mediatrix C7 Series Digital Gateway...
Page 35: ...Disclaimers Hardware Installation Guide Mediatrix C7 Series Digital Gateway 23 RoHS China...
Page 48: ...Appendix C Glossary Wide Area Network WAN 36 Mediatrix C7 Series Digital Gateway...
Page 50: ...Appendix D List of Acronyms 38 Mediatrix C7 Series...
