9
Installing Your Telephone on a Network
Quick Installation Procedure
First, connect one end of a network cable to the NETWORK port on the back of your
telephone and the other end to a port on a network device, such as on a hub or cable/
DSL modem. Plug the AC power adapter into an AC outlet and connect it to the power
jack marked 12VDC on the back of your telephone. Alternatively, you may supply power
to the phone over the Ethernet from a PowerDsine 60xx midspan power injector. If you
have not already, you should set the administrative password for the configuration web
site as soon as possible (see section, Configuration Web Site).
Verifying the Installation
Once your telephone is physically connected to the network and power is applied, you
can verify that your telephone is truly connected to the network by accessing its built-
in web site with a web browser on the same network. First, find out what your
telephone’s network address is by pressing its INFO/MUTE key. The address is on the
second line of the LCD display. Now enter the following URL into your web browser,
replacing
<network address>
with your telephone’s network address.
http://<network address>/
For example, if your address is 10.0.0.167, you would enter
http://10.0.0.167/
If you see the web site and not an error message, your telephone is properly
connected to the network; otherwise, review the Troubleshooting Appendix in the back
of this document.
Assuming you have the common command-line ping utility installed on a host on your
network, you could also “ping” your telephone to test connectivity. Get to a command-
line prompt on the host, e.g., from a terminal session under Linux or from a command
window under Windows (press Start, select Run, enter “command”) and enter the
command,
ping <network address>
where, as with the browser method, above,
<network address>
is the address of
your telephone. For example, your command might look something like this:
ping 10.0.0.167
If, as a result of this command, you see multiple messages to the effect that so many
bytes were received from that address in so many milliseconds, your telephone is
properly connected to the network. If you see any other message, e.g., something
about the destination being unreachable, or see no response at all after a few
seconds, your telephone is not properly connected to the network, and you should see
the Troubleshooting Appendix in the back of this document.
Alternative Methods of Assigning the Network Address
When it is first powered up, your telephone may attempt to contact a DHCP server on
the network to automatically obtain a network address. It needs this address in order to
communicate with other telephones and so that you can access its configuration web
site via your web browser. If it was not able to obtain an address, you must enter this
and other network information into the telephone directly using the configuration menu
(see the section, Configuration Menu).
