Browsing your board – Altera Nios Development Board User Manual
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Altera Corporation
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December 2004
If you don't have the ability to change the IP address of your host
computer, you could change the IP address of the board to match the
subnet of the host computer. For example, if your computer's IP address
is 1.2.3.4, then you could assign the address 1.2.3.5 to your board. To
change the board IP address, follow the steps in
.
Every time you reset the board, the web server will attempt to obtain an
IP address via DHCP, which takes two minutes to time out. You can abort
the DHCP process, or disable DHCP entirely by using the steps in
Browsing Your
Board
Once your board has a valid IP address (obtained from either DHCP self-
configuration or from flash memory), you can access the board via a web
browser (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer). To browse this site, open a
web browser and type the IP address of the board (four numbers
separated by decimal-points) as a URL directly into the browser’s
Address
input field. You can determine your board’s IP address by
reading the messages displayed on the LCD screen (the IP address is
continuously displayed).