Mediatrix 4400 – Digital Gateway
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Powering on the Mediatrix 4400
This chapter describes the initial provisioning of the Mediatrix 4400.
IP Address Discovery or Configuration
This section describes how to contact the Mediatrix 4400's management interface to start with unit
configuration.
Note that the Mediatrix 4400 IPv6 interface is disabled by default.
Once the physical connection is complete and the Mediatrix 4400 is powered up, you must first find out the IP
address the Mediatrix 4400 is using. The Mediatrix 4400's IP address can be set either dynamically or
statically. The default behaviour of the Mediatrix 4400 is to try to obtain a dynamic IP address through a DHCP
server.
Dynamic IPv4 Address Discovery
The default configuration is set so that the unit can be directly plugged into a network and provisioned with a
DHCP server. Media5 strongly recommends to set your DHCP server before installing the unit on the network.
This way, you know the IP address associated with a particular unit.
See the
Software Configuration Guide
for more details on how to set an external DHCP server.
DHCP servers generally allocate a range of IP addresses for use on a network and reserve IP addresses for
specific devices using a unique identifier for each device. The Mediatrix 4400 unique identifier is its media
access control (MAC) address. You can locate the MAC address as follows:
It is printed on the label located on the bottom side of the unit.
It is stored in the
System Information
page of the web interface.
If you have not reserved an IP address, you can discover which IP address has been assigned to the Mediatrix
4400 by either:
consulting your DHCP server's logs to find out details on the DHCP lease that was given to the
Mediatrix 4400.
using a network packet sniffer (e.g., Wireshark) to examine the DHCP messages exchanged
between the Mediatrix 4400 and your DHCP server while the Mediatrix 4400 boots up.
Caution:
If you set a Mediatrix 4400 with a static
eth1-4
IPv4 address in a subnet (for instance,
192.168.200.1) and the
eth5
interface receives a dynamic IP address in the same subnet (via a DHCP
server or PPP peer), you will not be able to contact the unit via the WAN. You must be careful that a dynamic
IP address does not overlap a static IP subnet that is already configured. Note that the current default value
of the Mediatrix 4400 is 192.168.0.10.
Caution:
If you are experiencing problems, or if you do not want to use a DHCP server and use a static IP
address instead, perform a Partial Reset procedure, as explained in
.
Summary of Contents for Mediatrix 4401
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Page 22: ...Chapter 2 Installation Hardware Installation 12 Mediatrix 4400 Digital Gateway ...
Page 40: ...Appendix B Cabling Considerations RJ 45 Cable 30 Mediatrix 4400 Digital Gateway ...
Page 46: ...Appendix C Standard Hardware Information Warranty 36 Mediatrix 4400 Digital Gateway ...
Page 50: ...Appendix D Glossary Wide Area Network WAN 40 Mediatrix 4400 Digital Gateway ...
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