Contemporary Control Systems BASrouter Installation Guide (Firmware 2.x) - Manual (Page 16)

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6.1 Device Parameters
6.1.1 Device Name (Default Value = BASRT-Bxxxxxx)
Starting with firmware 2.6.0, this editable field (not shown in
Figure 15) was added at the top of the main page because some
system software requires a unique device object name for each
device on the network. It can be up to 20 characters and defaults
to a unique name of the form BASRT-BXXXXXX — where the
Xs are replaced with the final six characters of the router’s
Ethernet MAC address.
6.1.2 Device Instance (Default Value = 0)
The router’s device instance is a 22-bit value (0–4,194,302). Do
not use 4,194,303 which is reserved by BACnet. Each BACnet
device within the same BACnet internetwork must have a unique
device instance. One must be assigned to the BASRT-B.
6.2 BACnet Ethernet
6.2.1 Ethernet Network (Default Value = 0)
Most BACnet communication that is carried by Ethernet uses the
BACnet/IP protocol. However, there are still instances in which
the older BACnet Ethernet protocol (ISO 8802-3) is found. The
BASRT-B allows these two protocols to communicate.
BACnet Ethernet uses Ethernet MAC addresses for station
addressing — unlike BACnet/IP which addresses messages by
means of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Each Ethernet MAC
address (often called the physical address) is unique to the
Ethernet network adapter. It is permanently embedded into the
adapter during manufacture and cannot be changed. It is
composed of six two-digit hexadecimal numbers (00–FF). An
example of an Ethernet MAC address is:
00-08-A1-10-BD-EB
Each Ethernet network adapter has the ability to store an IP
address that is changeable. This IP address is typically
represented as four decimal values (each is 0–255) separated by
dots. Often called the dotted quad format, an example is:
192.168.92.1
(0 disables BACnet Ethernet)