Ping Of Life - Alcatel AST570 User Manual

20 Maintenance - Speed Touch To Defaults

20.1 Ping of Life

Introduction
General procedure
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The AST570 offers a unique method to supply an IP address to
the AST570' (Wireless) Ethernet interface.
This method, the Ping of Life , allows to provide the AST570 with
an IP address without affecting other configurational settings.
The principle is fairly simple: a special ping packet will deliver an
IP address to your AST570.
Generally the procedure is as follows:
Step Action
1 Pre configure the intended IP address and a special MAC group
address in the ARP cache of one of your PCs.
2 Power cycle the AST570, and allow the POST to end (this
takes about 30 seconds).
3 Ping this same IP address within 60 seconds after the AST570
ended its POST.
If everything goes well, the AST570 has assimilated this IP
address.
4 Save the new IP setting via the AST570 pages.
Most TCP/IP packages support the ARP and PING command. The
Ping of Life can be executed from any PC on your local network.
IP Addresses and Subnet Masks
Make sure that the intended AST570 IP address and your PC
share the same IP (sub)network.
If not, the ping will be submitted with the MAC address of the
default router instead of the special MAC group address.
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