2470 High Voltage SourceMeter Instrument Reference Manual
Section 2: Installation
2470-901-01 Rev. A /
May
2019
2-17
The 2470 also supports Multicast DNS (mDNS) and DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD), which are
useful on a LAN with no central administration.
Contact your network administrator to confirm your specific network requirements before setting up a
LAN connection.
If you have problems setting up the LAN, refer to
LAN troubleshooting suggestions
(on page 2-24).
LAN cable connection
The 2470 includes a LAN crossover cable. You can use this cable for the TSP-Link
®
network or LAN
communications.
However, you can use any standard LAN crossover cable (RJ-45, male to male) or straight-through
cable to connect your equipment. The instrument automatically senses which cable you have
connected.
The following figure shows the location of the LAN port on the rear panel of the instrument. Connect
the LAN cable between this connection and the LAN port on the computer.
Figure 12: 2470 LAN port
You can connect the instrument to the LAN in a one-to-one, one-to-many, two network cards, or
enterprise configuration, as described in the following topics.
One-to-one connection
With most instruments, a one-to-one connection is done only when you are connecting a single
instrument to a single network interface card.
A one-to-one connection using a network crossover cable connection is similar to a typical RS-232
hookup using a null modem cable. The crossover cable has its receive (RX) and transmit (TX) lines
crossed to allow the receive line input to be connected to the transmit line output on the network
interfaces.
