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Before you start, you need the following information:
A valid IP address for the interface card. Ask your system
administrator for an IP address which does not cause conflicts
with any other device on the network. If you are the system
administrator, choose an address within your subnet which
does not conflict with any other device.
The MAC (Ethernet hardware) address of the interface card.
This is the hardware serial number of the interface card, which
cannot be changed. You can find out the MAC address on a
status sheet.
Checking the LAN
First, you need to check that the interface card can be reached from
the host, as follows:
1. Set the default gateway to the host on which you are setting
up the interface card.
If there is a server or a router which acts as a gateway, enter
the address of the server or the router. If there is no gateway,
enter the IP address of your computer as a gateway address.
2. The default IP address of the interface card is
"192.168.192.168". Check that the interface card is reachable
by "pinging" it from the command line:
ping 192.168.192.168
3. If the interface card is reachable, you can see the following
result (the exact form of the message depends on your
operating system, and the time may vary):
64 bytes from 192:168:192:168:icmp_seq=0. Time=34.ms
4. If the interface card is unreachable, you may see something
like this:
PING 192:168:192:168:56 data bytes
Setting the IP Address
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