Howto:Initial Startup

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The device is switched on by connecting the external power supply or through a PoE ( Power over Ethernet) power supply in accordance with IEEE 802.3af. The device is on and ready if the Ready LED on the housing is lit in green. The device isn’t ready if the Ready LED is lit in red. If the Ready LED is lit in orange the device is in tftp mode.

To be able to access the device, the RJ45 Ethernet connector (ETH0) on the device must be connected with the RJ45 Ethernet connector on the Ethernet hub or switch using twisted pair cable. The device can also be connected directly with a PC if desired. For this, no additional crossover cable is required, since ‘Auto-MDX’ support is provided.

Establish administrator access

There are two ways of putting the device into service. When shipped from the factory, the device is in so-called DHCP Automatic mode. In this mode, the device (once switched on) tries to obtain an IP-address from a DHCP server. To determine which IP-address was assigned to the device, it is possible under Windows to execute the nbtstat command with a command line interpreter (e.g. DOS-Box):

c:/ nbtstat -R (reloads remote cache table)
c:/ nbtstat -a ipxxx-xx-xx-xx (displays the IP-address of the specified remote computer using the entered MAC-Address,
where ipxxx is to be replaced with the device name (e.g. ip800 or ip1200) and xx-xx-xx is to be replaced with the last 6 hexadecimal digits of the serial number). The command should show something like

 NetBIOS remote machine name table
 Name                Type        Status
 -------------------------------------------
 ipxxx-XX-XX-XX<00>  UNIQUE      Registered
 195-226-104-217<00> UNIQUE      Registered
 MAC address = 00-90-33-XX-XX-XX

Caution
The IP-address cannot be displayed with nbtstat if the NetBIOS environment is configured exclusively for the name resolution via WINS. If the nbtstat command does not find the device, then the NetBIOS name resolution must be configured accordingly.

Under Linux, the nmblookup command can be used for this purpose, providing the SAMBA package has been installed:

[dvl@cobalt ~ 2]$.nmblookup ipxxx-xx-xx-xx
got a positive name query response from 195.226.104.217 (195.226.104.217)

The device was assigned the IP-address 195.226.104.217 . The device can now be accessed from any PC in the same network 195.226.104.x and can be configured as required. If no DHCP server is available, the ETH0 interface can be switched to the configured IP-address by briefly pressing the Reset key. If an IP-address was not explicitly configured, the IP-address 192.168.0.1 is specified as standard.

Caution Once the device has been put into service, DHCP Automatic mode should be switched immediately, since a reset changes the operating mode (see also the corresponding help page).

Note The initial start-up of the device concerns only the ETH0 interface. The ETH1 interface has the fixed IP-address 192.168.1.1 during initial start-up.

Note The state when shipped can be restored through a long reset.

Note Starting with v10, in addition to the catenation of the product name and the last three digits of the MAC address(i.e. ipxxx-xx-xx-xx) now the complete MAC address may be used as argument to "nbtstat -a <name>". For example both "nbtstat -a IP222-2F-30-05" or "nbtstat -a 0090332F3005" will return the same result.