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

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that Paul
Of course it was a piece of cake for me
...as normal i had probs but i think i got it set up ok now.....In the
server / tcp ip setups  i unticked  the DHCP etc ??? hope thats
correct.......Will find out next time i reboot........

Thanks Again
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] MSS100 and CBus (was: How many PCs do you have at
home?)


> 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
>
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