Grass Valley NV8500 Series v.3.5 - Manual (Page 177)

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NV8500 Series
User’s Guide
IP Address
Click ‘IP Address’ in the navigation pane to change the card’s IP address and its related values.
The ‘IP Address’ page appears:
(The field labeled ‘New IP Mask’ is the network’s subnet mask.)
Note of Caution
When you first place a frame sync card, with its backplane module, in a slot in a router frame, the
card initially acquires a default IP address that is based on the slot number: the lower octet of
the IP address is the slot number (in the range 1 to 64). The default subnet is 192.168.3.xxx.
After you change the IP address of frame sync card, it will never be assigned the default address
again. The IP address assigned to the frame sync card is actually stored in the card’s backplane
module. If you move the backplane module, the assigned IP address moves with it. The frame
sync cards themselves are interchangeable.
 The two frames of an expanded NV8576-Plus have identical slot numbering. Therefore, using
the defaults for IP address will probably result in duplicate IP addresses on the network you
use to configure the cards. You must assign specific IP addresses to such cards.
 It is easy to forget the IP address of a frame sync card. There is no simple way to determine
the IP address of a particular frame sync card, particularly if your router has many of them.
Further, there is no way to access the card through your browser.
If you do forget, open MRC’s ‘Ethernet Settings’ page and review the IP addresses of your
frame sync cards. Also open MRC’s ‘Module Status’ or ‘Module Types’ page. Each of these