Polycom 3150-30828-001 User Manual

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Polycom® RSS™ 4000 Getting Started Guide – Version 5.0

Changing the initial IP address via an RS232 Console or Telnet

Another option to modify the IP address of the Polycom® RSS™ 4000 is using the
RS232 console.

Connect to the RS232 port – and activate the console (9600, 8bits)

When you first login to the console, you will see the current IP address of the system.

Help

After the user have logged onto the system, enter "?" or "help" after the "#" to show the
available commands.

Available commands:

show Show system information.

...

help or ? Show this message.

quit Logout.

IP settings

Enter the command in below format after the prompt "#" to set LAN 1 IP address:

set lan1 static netmask [gw ]

For example, set the IP address of the LAN1 interface to 172.21.103.129, subnet mask to
255.255.255.0, and the gateway address to 172.21.103.254:

# set lan1 static 172.21.103.129 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw

172.21.103.254

Reset login Password

Enter “reset password" after the prompt "#" and press Enter to reset the current
password to the default password (POLYCOM), allowing the user to reset the login
password.