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Chapter 3 Network Settings and Software
Installation
To use this product correctly, you have to properly configure the network settings of your
computers and install the attached setup program into your MS Windows platform
(Windows 95/98/NT/2000).
3.1 Make Correct Network Settings of Your Computer
The default
IP
address
of this product is 192.168.123.254, and the default
subnet mask
is
255.255.255.0. These addresses can be changed as needed, but the default values are used
in this manual. If the TCP/IP environment of your computer has not yet been configured,
you can refer to
Appendix A
to configure it. For example,
1. configure
IP
as 192.168.123.1,
subnet mask
as 255.255.255.0 and
gateway
as
192.168.123.254, or, more easily,
2. configure your computers to load TCP/IP setting automatically, that is, via DHCP
server of this product.
After installing the TCP/IP communication protocol, you can use the
ping
command to
check if your computer has successfully connected to this product. The following example
shows the ping procedure for Windows 95 platforms. First, execute the
ping
command
ping 192.168.123.254
If the following messages appear:
Pinging 192.168.123.254 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.123.254: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
a communication link between your computer and this product has been successfully
established. Otherwise, if you get the following messages,
Pinging 192.168.123.254 with 32 bytes of data: