ACCESS Product Manual
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To have the ability to make connections normally, without using the
traversal functions of the Switchboard Traversal Server (Switchboard TS),
one of the ACCESS in the link should be connected to a public IP address.
This can be achieved several ways:
1) ACCESS can be the only device connected directly to its Inter-
net link or it can share an Internet link that provides more than
one IP address.
2) ACCESS can be connected behind a NAT router, which can be
programmed to provide public Internet access to it through port
forwarding.
But for now we’ll assume you have a way to set up at least one end of your
ACCESS link with a public IP. In a radio remote environment, this should
probably be the studio end, since you will often have much less control on
the remote side.
ACCESS can be set to its own, fixed IP address (referred to as
Static
in
Internet-speak) or can obtain its address from the network (known as
Dynamic
or DHCP). This concept is entirely independent from the
Public
vs. Private
concept. Public and private addresses can each be dynamic or
static.
Dynamic (DHCP)
— ACCESS is set by default to DHCP addressing, mean-
ing that it looks to your network for assignment of an IP address. If your
network has a DHCP server and this is the way you intend to use it, you
don’t need to alter any settings in the
Console Connection Interface
. You
will, however, need to know what address is being assigned to ACCESS by
the network. This is easily done by attaching a computer monitor to the
VGA port on ACCESS before applying power. After ACCESS boots, it will
display the current IP address on the monitor. Note: DHCP addresses can
change over time, so you may need to recheck the address if you are hav-
ing trouble connecting.
Finally, there’s one other way to determine the IP address of ACCESS. If
you’re unable to put a computer monitor on the system, you can infer the
IP address by what’s displayed on the front panel LEDs for a few seconds
during the boot process.
DHCP servers typically assign IP address in a standard format. This is
because they must choose addresses that are not in use by the Internet at
large. They will likely choose an address at one of 3 distinct ranges:
192.168.x.x
172.16.x.x
10.x.x.x
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