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Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Configuration
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Setting the Network Address
Note If you are connecting only a single FP-1000/1001 network module, you do not
need to change the network address from the preconfigured setting of address 0. If you
are connecting more than one network module to the same host computer port, ensure that
each network module has a unique address.
Switches 1–5 set the network module address. The addresses of the
terminal bases in a FieldPoint bank are automatically configured by the
network module to be sequentially higher than the network module’s
address. For example, if the network module is set to address 20, the
I/O module in the terminal base adjacent to the network module is at
address 21, the next I/O module is at address 22, and so on. A terminal base
is assigned an address whether an I/O module is inserted on it or not. The
network module’s address is determined by the settings of the switches
when the modules is powered on. If the switch settings are changed while
the module is powered, the module must be powered off then on again
before the new settings are applied.
Table 2-1 shows the possible switch positions and the corresponding
address of the FieldPoint network module.