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Configuring Your Network Adapter for GigE Visionscape
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Cycle power to the camera. The config tool will now show the following:
Now, every time the camera is rebooted it will automatically set this IP
address so it will not have to search the network to determine what IP
address to use.
This is ideal in fixed industrial setups. However, it does mean that you
cannot swap cameras from NIC to NIC or even change the address of the
NIC without setting the camera too.
Now the NIC is set correctly and you need to adjust the way the software
sends the data from the camera to the PC. The NIC “allows” the use of
jumbo packets now but it does not enforce their use. You have to tell
Visionscape to use them. This is done as follows:
Make sure that the dm.config file (C:\Vscape\DM\dm.config) is deleted.
This will give you a clean start. Now boot FrontRunner. This will create a
new dm.config file and populate the Windows registry with default values.
The camera is going to use the default 1500 byte packet size that
Visionscape uses out-of-the-box. You need to change this before going
any further. These values are stored in the registry. From the Start menu
select
Run… and type:
Regedit