User`s manual

Chapter 3 Initial IP Address Configuration

When setting up your NPort 5210/5230 for the first time, the first thing you should do is configuring

the IP address. This chapter introduces the method to configure NPort’s IP address. Select one of the

initial IP Address configuration methods to configure NPort’s IP Address. For more details about

network settings, see the Network Settings section from Chapter 5, Web Console Configuration.

This chapter includes the following sections:

 Initializing NPort’s IP Address

 Factory Default IP Address

 NPort Administration Suite  recommended configuration method

 ARP

 Telnet Console

 Serial Console (19200, n, 8, 1)

Initializing NPort’s IP Address

1. Determine whether your NPort needs to use a Static IP or Dynamic IP (either DHCP or BOOTP

application).

2. If NPort is used in a Static IP environment, you can use NPort Administration Suite, ARP, Web

Console, Telnet Console, or Serial Console to configure the new IP address.

3. If NPort is used in a Dynamic IP environment, you can use NPort Administration suite, Web

Console, Telnet Console, or Serial Console to configure NPort to get an IP address dynamically

with DHCP, DHCP/BOOTP, or BOOTP.

Consult your network administrator on how to reserve a fixed IP address (for your NPort) in the

MAC-IP mapping table when using a DHCP Server or BOOTP Server. In most applications, you

should assign a fixed IP address to your NPort.

Factory Default IP Address

NPort products are configured with the following default private IP address:

Default IP address: 192.168.127.254

(IP addresses of the form 192.168.xxx.xxx are referred to as private IP addresses, since it is not

possible to directly access a device configured with a private IP address from a public network. For

example, you would not be able to ping such a device from an outside Internet connection. NPort

applications that require sending data over a public network, such as the Internet, require setting up

the server with a valid public IP address, which can be leased from a local ISP.)