ACTi TCD-2100 - Manual (Page 13)

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TCD-2100 Hardware Manual
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Accessing the Device
Configure the IP Address
In order to be able to communicate with the device from your PC, both the device and the PC
have to be within the same network segment. In most cases, it means that they both should
have very similar IP addresses, where only the last number of the IP address is different from
each other. There are 2 different approaches to IP Address management in Local Area
Networks – by DHCP Server or Manually.
Using DHCP server to assign IP address
If you have connected the computer and the device into the network that has a DHCP server
running, then you do not need to configure the IP addresses at all – both the device and the
PC would request a unique IP address from the DHCP server automatically. In such case, the
device will immediately be ready for the access from the PC. The user, however, might not
know the IP address of the device yet. It is necessary to know the IP address of the device in
order to access it using a Web browser.
The quickest way to discover the devices in the network is to use the simplest network
search, built in the Windows system – just by pressing the “Network” icon, all the devices of the
local area network will be discovered by Windows, thanks to the UPnP function support of our
devices.
In the example below, the device that has just been connected to the network is successfully
found.