SL Rack Receiver DW
60
Integrating the receiver into a network with DHCP
The receiver obtains the IP address from the DHCP server. You can see this
address in the
Network Settings
menu on the receiver (see „Using the op-
erating menu of the receiver“).
To add the receiver in the
Sennheiser Control Cockpit
:
▷
Use the
Add Device
function in the
Sennheiser Control Cockpit
and
enter the IP address you saw in the settings menu.
Or:
▷
Activate the
mDNS
function in the receiver’s
Network Settings
menu
(factory setting: deactivated).
▷
Restart the receiver.
Once restarted, the receiver is automatically detected in the
Sennhe-
iser Control Cockpit
.
mDNS
=
multicast Domain Name System
: resolves host names to
IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name
server. Used for automatic device discovery.
Integrating the receiver into a network without DHCP using Auto IP
If there is no DHCP server in the network and you are working with auto-
matically generated IP addresses, please observe the following informa-
tion.
▷
Set the
Mode
to
Automatic
in the receiver’s
Network Settings
menu.
▷
Ensure that the host PC on which the
Sennheiser Control Cockpit ser-
vice
is installed is configured so that the IP address is assigned auto-
matically, rather than a static configuration.
After several minutes, all receivers in the network will receive a
link-local
address in the range of
169.254.x.x
. You can see this address in the
Net-
work Settings
menu on the receiver (see „Using the operating menu of the
To add the receiver in the
Sennheiser Control Cockpit
:
▷
Use the
Add Device
function in the
Sennheiser Control Cockpit
and
enter the IP address you saw in the settings menu.
Or:
▷
Activate the
mDNS
function in the receiver’s
Network Settings
menu
(factory setting: deactivated).
▷
Restart the receiver.
Once restarted, the receiver is automatically detected in the
Sennhe-
iser Control Cockpit
.
mDNS
=
multicast Domain Name System
: resolves host names to
IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name
server. Used for automatic device discovery.
