Re: MSS100 and CBus (was: How many PCs do you have at home?)

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You must enter an IP address for the unit in the box that says
"Specify IP Address" if you
want to avoid DHCP.

Submask should be set to the same submask as used on your PCs. This is
probably
255.255.255.0, but you can check by running "ipconfig" in a dos
command window.

It will also tell you what your default gateway is - this is the machine on
your LAN that
is a router to get out to the internet. It will still work inside your LAN
without this
set (which is how I've got mine right now - with the gateway set to
0.0.0.0), but you
can't telnet *from* the mss100 out to the internet. Although why you'd want
to do that,
I'm not sure. There may be other things that don't work without the gateway
set, but mine
is working with cbus without this.

HTH
Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] MSS100 and CBus (was: How many PCs do you have at
home?)


> Hi Kevin
> >set the subnet mask and enter your
> > gateway IP address - and then restart them
>
> Sorry im lost here .....what do i set the submask to ...and what is
the
> gateway ???
>
> Frank
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:20 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MSS100 and CBus (was: How many PCs do you have
at
> home?)
>
>
> >
> >
> >    > -----Original Message-----
> >    > From: Frank Mc Alinden [mailto:fmcalind@xxxxxxx]
> >
> >
> >    > Homevision mss unit...This time i had to change the ip
> >    > address on that Homevision com port was set on as the mss
> >    > unit was assigned a new ip....
> >    > Is it possible / easy to give them fixed ip
addresses.......
> >    >
> >
> > Frank - just turn off DHCP on the MSS100's - via the web config
screens
> and
> > give each MSS100 a unique IP address, set the subnet mask and
enter your
> > gateway IP address - and then restart them. Now each MSS100 will
stay at
> > that fixed IP address. I rarely use DHCP as I like to know where
> everything
> > is...
> >
> > Kevin