Attero Tech SquawkBox - Manual (Page 15)

SquawkBox
User Manual
 Attero Tech LLC 2014 Page 11 614-00007-04
For dynamic assignment, a DHCP server that supports BOOTP is preferable. Control Center can be used as a temporary
solution but Control Center, on its own does not provide any facility to update the SquawkBox firmware (a BOOTP server is
required to do that). While a BOOTP server provides a subnet mask that’s configurable on the server, Control Center cannot.
Instead, it relies on the SquawkBox itself to define a subnet mask based on the IP address it has been given as follows:
IP address range Subnet used
1.0.0.0 through to 127.254.254.254 255.0.0.0
128.0.0.0 through to 191.254.254.254 255.255.0.0
192.0.0.0 and greater 255.255.255.0
*Note:
It is recommended on large system of 250 or more SquawkBoxes to use either a BOOTP server or set static IP
addresses.
*Note:
Any SquawkBox that is reset or powered off will lose its dynamically assigned address. It will attempt to get another
one when it turns back on so whatever mechanism is used to supply an IP address must be running all the time.
*Note:
Any SquawkBox not assigned an appropriate IP address and subnet mask will not respond to override requests