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HowdoIaccessmyserialENETinterfaceusing

thehostname?

Ifyouwanttousethesamehostnamethatthedeviceisconfiguredwith

andyouknowitsIPaddress,skiptothenextstep.Otherwise,runtheNI

EthernetDeviceConfigurationutility.(Youmustuseacomputeronthe

samesubnetasthedevice.)RefertoViewingNetworkSettingsformore

informationabouttheNIEthernetDeviceConfigurationutility.

VerifythedeviceispresentonthenetworkbypingingtheIP

addressofyourdevice.Pingisanetworkutilitythatsendsa

packettoadevice/hostonthenetwork,thenwaitsforittobe

echoedback,whichindicatesanactivedevice/host.Findthe

directorywherepingisinstalledandtypeinthefollowing

command:

pingIPaddress

whereIPaddressistheIPaddressassignedtoyourserialdevice

server.Whenyourdevicerespondstothepingrequests,repeat

thisprocedure,butthistimeusingthehostname:

pinghostname

Ifyourdevicefailstorespondwhenusingthehostname,theDNS

entryforthedeviceisincorrect.

Ifthenetworkparameterswerestatically(manually)assigned,the

hostnamemustbemanuallyenteredinyournetwork'sDomain

NameServer(DNS)tablebeforeyoucanusethehostnameto

communicatewithyourdevice.Haveyournetworkadministrator

enterthisinformation.

Youalsocanmanuallycheckthatthedevice'shostnamehasbeen

enteredintheDNStablebyusingNSLookup.Thisnetworkutility

queriestheDNSforentriesintheDNStable.Youcanuse

NSLookuptodeterminethehostnameassociatedwithany

particularIPaddresslistedintheDNStable.Findthedirectory

whereNSLookupisinstalledandtypeinthefollowingcommand:

nslookupIPaddress

whereIPaddressistheIPaddressyouwanttolookup.Alternately,

todeterminetheIPaddressassociatedwithaparticularhostname,

typeinthefollowingcommandinstead:

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