System Sensor FAAST Networking User Manual

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User Guide: FAAST Fire Alarm Aspiration Sensing Technology® Networking

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7. Upon connection, you may receive one of the following messages.

If you receive the first message, select Yes to copy the settings from the detector into your PipeIQ project file. If you receive

the second message, select No.

8. Edit the IP settings for the detector using the Device Connection group. The FAAST detector can operate using either a

static IP address or a dynamic IP address assigned via a DHCP server. When using DHCP, all the IP settings are provided

by the server and static settings are disabled. The fields are described in the table below.

Static IP

Dynamic IP

Field

Description

IP Address

The address uniquely identifying the

FAAST detector on an IP network

Subnet Mask

Used to determine the subnet to

which the detector belongs

Default

Gateway

A router for the detector to use when

contacting external networks

Primary DNS

Server

The IP address of a server to handle

name resolution requests

Secondary

DNS Server

The IP address of a second server to

handle name resolution requests

Note:

Choose these values carefully. Illegal IP address / subnet mask combinations will make it impossible to connect

to the device.

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