National Instruments PCI-8430 - Page 85

UsingStaticIPParameters
IfDHCPisnotavailable,youmustprovidetheserialENETinterfacewith
severalimportantnetworkparameters.Theseparametersarelisted
below.
IPaddress—Theunique,computer-readableaddressofadevice
onyournetwork.AnIPaddresstypicallyisrepresentedasfour
decimalnumbersseparatedbyperiods(forexample,
130.164.54.20).RefertoChoosingaStaticIPAddress.
Subnetmask—Acodethathelpsthenetworkdevicedetermine
whetheranotherdeviceisonthesamenetworkoradifferent
network.
GatewayIP—TheIPaddressofadevicethatactsasagateway,
whichisaconnectionbetweentwonetworks.Ifyournetworkdoes
nothaveagateway,setthisparameterto0.0.0.0.
DNSServer—TheIPaddressofanetworkdevicethatstores
hostnamesandtranslatesthemintoIPaddresses.Ifyournetwork
doesnothaveaDNSserver,setthisparameterto0.0.0.0.