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Chapter 6
Additional information
IP Basics
ManyAUDACproductsarecontrollablebyEthernet.TheEthernetconnectionwhich
isusedontheAUDACproductsisTCP/IPbasedlike99%ofthecomputernetworks.
TherearesomebasicswhichyouneedtoknowtosuccessfullymakeaTCP/IPEthernet
connection.
ThedatainTCP/IPnetworksisalwayssendinpackages,allthesepackagesmustbe
deliveredatanuniqueaddress,justlikethemailmandeliversmailatyourhomemailbox.
InTCP/IPnetworks,thisaddressiscalledthe“IPaddress”.TheIPaddressisalwaysa
numberinthefollowingformat“192.168.000.001”.Asyoucansee,thisaddressconsists
of4separatenumbersrangingfrom“000”to“255”.
Insimpleterms,onlythelatestnumberofanIPaddresscanbedifferentwithina
network,sothereisamaximumof256uniqueaddresseswithinanetwork,ranging
from“xxx.xxx.xxx.000”to“xxx.xxx.xxx.255”.Thefirstthreenumbersmustbethe
sametomakecommunicationbetweenseveraldevicespossible,elsethedevicescan
notcommunicatewitheachother.
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Example:
Device1: IPaddress: 192.168.000.001
Device2: IPaddress: 192.168.000.002
Device3: IPaddress: 192.168.001.003
Inthisexample,Device1cancommunicatewithDevice2,butnotwithDevice3,
becausethefirstthreenumbersmustbethesame.Thesefirstthreepartsarecalled
the“IPrange”,sothedevicesmustbeinthesame“IPrange”tocommunicatewith
eachother.
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