National Instruments FieldPoint FP-1600 User Manual page 30

Chapter 3 Hardware and Software Configuration
FieldPoint FP-1600 User Manual
The Time Server IP is the address of the computer where you have installed
the National Instruments Time Service. Time Service is installed along with
the FieldPoint software and with Lookout 4.0 and will run automatically.
If you are setting up your own network, you probably do not have a gateway
or DNS server, so you should set these values to
To find out the network settings for your computer, run
Windows 98/95 or
ipconfig
Run from the Windows 98/95 Start menu. Type
field, and click on OK. The IP Configuration window appears, which
gives you information about the network setup for your computer. Make
sure that you have selected the correct Ethernet adapter from the pop-up
menu at the top of the window. Most computers have only one Ethernet
card, but many are also configured for some type of dial-up networking
such as PPP or SLIP. Make sure you are looking at the Ethernet adapter
settings.
To run under Windows NT, open a Windows NT Command
ipconfig
window, type
ipconfig
more information, you can run
. This shows you all of the settings for the Windows NT
ipconfig /all
machine. Make sure you use the settings for the correct Ethernet adapter to
configure your FP-1600.
on Windows NT. To run
at the prompt, and press <Enter>. If you need
with the
ipconfig
3-8
.
0.0.0.0
on
winipcfg
, select
winipcfg
in the Open
winipcfg
option by typing
/all
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