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Assigning A Static IP Address Via Ethernet
Over the network interface, first connect the device to the network and accept the dynamic IP address from
a DHCP server. Once connected to the device, the static IP address may be set directly from the wiring page
within SoundStructure Studio. Hit the apply button to change the IP address. Changing the IP address will
force SoundStructure Studio to lose connection to the device.
Reconnect to the SoundStructure device using the new IP address and save the settings to a file using the
File Save or File Save As which when working online will also force the SoundStructure device to store the
IP address permanently in the device. The project must be saved to ensure the IP address is set perma-
nently - otherwise upon the next reboot of the device, the IP address will revert to the previous settings.
With version 1.3 firmware and later, a static IP address assigned to a device will remain with the Sound-
Structure device regardless of whether a configuration file in a device matches that actual hardware. In
previous firmware releases, if the configuration file did not match the hardware, perhaps because a tele-
phony card was inserted or removed from a SoundStructure device, then the system would default back to
looking for a DHCP address.
Assigning A Static IP Address Via The API
A terminal window may be opened directly via the RS-232 interface to send the API commands described
below.
To configure the device to have a static IP address, use the eth_settings command as follows:
set eth_settings 1
"mode='static',addr='192.168.1.101',gw='192.168.10.254',nm='255.255.255.0',dns='66.82.
134.56'"
where the 1 represents the device ID of the SoundStructure. If multiple SoundStructure devices are linked
together, the device id of the first unit will be 1 and subsequent connected devices will have sequential
device id's ranging from 2 to the number of devices assuming the OBAM interface is connected from OBAM
in to OBAM out as described in
SoundStructure Design
The eth_settings command accepts a complete string with the arguments summarized below. Argu-
ments to the different fields must be surrounded with single quotes.
eth_settings Commands and Values
Field Definition
mode How the system receives an
IP address
addr IP address
gw Gateway
nm Netmask
dns Name Server
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Values
static or dhcp
The desired IP address
The IP address of the gateway
The netmask defining the subnet
The IP address of the name server used to resolve host names.
Multiple DNS servers may be specified by separating the
arguments with spaces
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