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Manual MAVM600-NET/E xv

Edition 9 - February 2018

4 SETTING UP AN ETHERNET CONNECTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

4.1 Default IP address parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

4.1.1 CPUM cards running firmware version 075 or later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

4.1.2 CPUM cards running firmware version 074 or earlier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

4.2 Configuring a computer for Ethernet communications with a VM600 rack . . . . . . . 4-3

4.2.1 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

4.2.2 Configuring a computer’s network adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

4.2.3 Editing a computer’s hosts file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

4.2.4 Testing communications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

4.3 Ethernet redundancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

4.3.1 Changing the IP addresses of the rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

4.3.1.1 CPUM cards running firmware version 075 or later . . . . . . . . . 4-9

4.3.1.2 CPUM cards running firmware version 074 or earlier . . . . . . . 4-12

4.4 Using VM600 software with a networked rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

4.4.1 VM600 MPS software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

4.4.2 VM600 CMS software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

5 ETHERNET COMMUNICATIONS WITH A VM600 RACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

5.1 Establishing Ethernet communications with a CPUM card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

5.2 Using an Ethernet connection to check the IP address of a CPUM card . . . . . . . . 5-2

5.2.1 CPUM cards running firmware version 075 or later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

5.2.2 CPUM cards running firmware version 074 or earlier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

5.3 Using an Ethernet connection to identify the firmware version of a CPUM card . . 5-4

5.4 Editing configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

5.5 Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

5.6 Adding a default gateway to a CPUM card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

5.6.1 CPUM cards running firmware version 075 or later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

5.6.2 About the sysinit file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

5.6.2.1 Example sysinit file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

5.6.2.2 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

5.6.3 CPUM cards running firmware version 074 or earlier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

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