User's Manual

Figure3‐2‐5:StatusafterstartingPCP
FromthehostcomputerconfiguredtobeaSTA,thenetworkshouldnowbevisiblewhentheuserclicksonthe
wirelessconnectiontrayicon.Theusercanthendoubleclickonthenetworktheywishtoconnectto.Note:this
step
isthesameasconnectingtoanywirelessnetwork.
Ifconnectionwassuccessful,thestatuswillbeupdatedtoConnectedonbothhostcomputers.
2.4.4Setting staticIP addresses for host machines
WhileeachnodeonthenetworkwillbegivenanIPaddressautomatically,staticIPaddressescanbe
configured
foreachhost.Thisisnotrequiredfortraffictobesentoverthenetwork.SettingstaticIPaddressescanbedone
fromtheAdapterpropertiesforthedevice(sameasanyothernetworkdevice)andselectingtheInternetProtocol
Version4(TCP/IPv4)properties.EnsurethatdifferentIPaddresses
areusedforbothdevices.Figure#belowshows
theconfiguringofstaticaddressesforoneofthehostmachines