Initializing Nport 5200'S Ip Address; Factory Default Ip Address; Nport 5200 Administration Suite; Arp - Moxa Technologies NPort 5200 Series User Manual

Initializing NPort 5200's IP Address

1. Determine whether your NPort 5200 needs to use a Static IP or Dynamic IP (either DHCP or
BOOTP application).
2. If NPort 5200 is used in a Static IP environment, you can use NPort 5200 Administration
Suite, ARP, Web Console, Telnet Console, or Serial Console to configure the new IP address.
3. If NPort 5200 is used in a Dynamic IP environment, you can use NPort 5200
Administration Suite, Web Console, Telnet Console, or Serial Console to configure NPort
5200 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 5200 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 5200.

Factory Default IP Address

NPort 5200 products are configured with the following default private IP address:
(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 5200 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.)

NPort 5200 Administration Suite

NPort 5200 Administration Suite consists of some useful utility programs that are used to
configure and manage your NPort 5200s.
See Chapter 5 for details on how to install NPort 5200 Administration Suite, and how to use
this suite of useful utilities to set up IP addresses and configure your NPort 5200 Series
serial device servers.

ARP

You can make use of the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) command to set up an IP address for
your NPort 5200. The ARP command tells your computer to associate the NPort 5200's MAC
address with the intended IP address. You must then use Telnet to access the NPort 5200, at
which point the device server's IP address will be reconfigured.
In order to use this setup method, both your computer and NPort 5200 must be connected to the
same LAN.
Or, you may use a cross-over Ethernet cable to connect the NPort 5200 directly to your
computer's Ethernet card.
Your NPort 5200 must be configured with the factory default IP address—192.168.127.254—
before executing the ARP command, as described below.
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Default IP address: 192.168.127.254