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GMS Inc. doing business as Cobham Tactical Communications and Surveillance
www.cobham.com/tcs
Figure 41 - Static IP Address
 That is all that is needed to be able to communicate with the M2TE. Make sure to click on the
“OK” button and then exit the properties window. You should now be able to open a Browser
such as Microsoft IE and type in the default IP address of the M2TE (in this example it is
192.168.1.36) and it should be able to talk to it (make sure to plug in the IP (Ethernet) cable
from the M2TE to the PC).
Keep in mind the following:
 The IP address set for the PC as shown above in Figure 41 is its static IP address (192.168.1.20),
do not enter the IP address of the M2TE here. The IP address of the PC must be different
from the M2TE IP address; you cannot have two different devices with the same IP address on
a network. The “192.168.1” portion of this address shows that it is a class C address with a
network ID of 192.168.1.0 The “.20” portion states the host information. Host information can
be set from 1 to 254. Zero (0), and 255 are usually reserved or have special meaning, so do not
use them. Hence as long as the network ID is the same as the M2TE the PC will be able to
communicate with the M2TE. So I could set the IP address of the PC to 192.168.1. <1-254>
and it still would be able to communicate with the M2TE. For example instead of using
192.168.1.20, I could use 192.168.1.30 or 192.168.1.5 or 192.168.1.60, etc.
IP address of PC