Establishing A Network Environment - Quantum Data 881 User Manual

Establishing a network environment

Connecting generators to the network
96 Chapter 3 Networking Generators
To create a network environment for your generators, you must physically connect the
generators to the network, and then configure their IP addresses and the IP address of the
file server. Procedures for these tasks are described in this section.
In a typical networked environment, you will connect the generators to the corporate,
IP-based Ethernet LAN. In this scenario, you connect a standard Ethernet patch cable
between the Ethernet port on the generator and a LAN access jack. The file server is also
connected to the LAN in the same manner.
Another type of network scenario is to directly connect a single generator to a file server.
For a direct connection, you must use a crossover Ethernet cable and connect it from the
Ethernet port on the file server to the generator Ethernet port as shown below.