3Com 3C888 User Guide - Page 39
Setting Up Your Computer If You Have a Static IP Address, Companion Programs
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Setting Up Your Computer If You Have a Static IP Address 39 Setting Up Your Computer If You Have a Static IP Address If your computer has a static IP address and you want to keep this for use with a network that uses or will use static IP addressing, you must make certain changes to the LAN Modem's default parameters. These changes will allow your statically-configured PC to "talk" to the LAN Modem for its initial configuration. The procedure is described in this section. For Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT 4.0, you can choose to use the EZ-LAN Wizard, located on the Companion Programs CD-ROM to automatically set up your statically-configured PC to access the LAN Modem. For other operating systems, or to perform this procedure manually, follow the steps outlined in this section. The LAN Modem is designed by default to work with a dynamically-assigned network. The instructions in this section are for advanced users only. By default, the LAN Modem is set up to establish itself automatically as the "gateway" for computers on the LAN to access the WAN. However, if a computer is set up for static instead of dynamic IP addressing, it will have a fixed IP address assigned as its Gateway or Router entry that is not recognizable by the LAN Modem. In this case, when you connect your computer to the LAN Modem and turn on both for the first time, the LAN Modem will not be able to "talk" to your workstation, and you will not be able to access the LAN Modem's configuration pages. To communicate with the LAN Modem for its initial configuration, you need to follow the procedure outlined below only for the workstation that you first connect to LAN Modem. The basic steps for setting up a statically configured workstation are outlined in Figure 24.