Special Cases; Retry The Ip-Address Via Dhcp - Panasonic WEB-SERVER II Technical Description

8. ADVANCED CONFIGURATION

8.4. SPECIAL CASES

8.4.1. RETRY THE IP-ADDRESS VIA DHCP

When using DHCP, the webserver will try to retrieve an IP-address from the network-router automatically.
But some may experience that the webserver doesn't get any valid IP-address due to different
circumstances, such as;
• webserver boots up before the router is ready
• the network cable wasn't connected when the webserver started up.
• a system where the web-server and the router always starts up simultaneously.
In those cases, the webserver might miss the chance to receive a valid IP-address via DHCP, and creates
its own address. For a small system, just restart the web-server. For a system with many web-servers, an
automatic retry is useful.
It's now possible to activate a function in the webserver, to make it retry to retrieve an IP-address via DHCP
for a certain time interval. This is done by manual settings in chip.ini.
To enable the function, change the following in chip.ini. :
[AUTOETH]
WTIME=5
ENABLE=1
This will enable the function to refresh the network-card status every 5 seconds.
ACCESS Chip.ini
To access the chip.ini, use a ftp-client and log into the webserver (default username/password is ftp/ftp).
Download chip.ini from the root directory and make your changes. Once the changes are made, upload the
chip.ini back to the webserver and reboot the unit.
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