MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 183)

HDR 24/96
When connecting to a network where the router is assigning IP addresses for several computers
already, and you want include the HDR 24/96, you can use the WINIPCFG tool to determine what
fixed address to use on your HDR and everybody's happy. Most routers that auto-assign IP addresses
also have a base address for those addresses, and often even a limit on the number of address to
assign. For example your LAN might use addresses 192.168.1.2, 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.4,
192.168.1.5, and 192.168.1.6. The router acts as the gateway at address 192.168.1.1. On the Internet
side (imagine we're hooked up to that too!), the router itself is getting a dynamically assigned IP
address from the ISP (that bears no relation to any of the listed IP addresses). Because your LAN is
in its own private address space you are perfectly safe in setting HDR IP address to any value that has
the same first three fields, but which is different in the fourth field. Just make that fourth field out-of-
range of the auto-assignments.
It is also interesting to note that while you have checked the option to "Obtain an IP Address
Automatically," there is a good chance the address will change infrequently. If you reboot your
computer without the address-assigning services attached, still the previously set address will persist.
This means that if you are switching to and from a peer-to-peer network with the HDR, you can
probably set a fixed address on the HDR that will work each time without set-up changes.
Networking Glossary
Here you will find a short description of some of the features (and acronyms, of course) of the
Network setup:
TCP/IP
TCP/IP is the acronym for Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. These combined
protocols provide the language and guidelines for computers communicating on a network.
Transport Control Protocol might be considered the method by which computers talk and the
Internet Protocol is the assigned number system by which computers are distinguished. An IP
address is a numeric identifier in the format 123.456.789.000. Each computer that is attached to
the Internet (WAN/Wide Area Network) must have a unique IP address so it may be identified.
Likewise, in a closed networking environment (LAN or Local Area Network), a unique IP
address must be assigned to each computer that communicates on the network.
Although LAN computers may connect to a WAN, such practice is typically achieved by the use
of a “Gateway” and/or “Firewall/Router or Proxy Server” A gateway will act as a conduit for
networking traffic and computers that communicate through the gateway will assume the IP
address of the gateway. In other words, if your personal computer, which is connected to your
LAN, has an IP address of 10.1.1.1 and it is connected to the Internet through a gateway
computer with an IP address of 123.456.789.123, other computers outside your LAN will
recognize your computer as having the IP address of 123.456.789.123 (same as the gateway
computer). Multiple LAN computers may be connected to a WAN by this method and every
computer communicating from behind the gateway will appear to the WAN as the gateway
computer. The gateway will convert the IP addresses of the LAN computers to its own IP address
for both inbound and outbound traffic.
A firewall/router or proxy server is a hardware and/or software device that allows definable
filtering of specific information, file types and network access. It is often used for security
purposes—if your hard drive and console are networked, you might want to carefully research the
need for firewall/proxy protection.
FTP
FTP is the acronym for File Transfer Protocol. FTP communicates over TCP/IP and is one of the
languages/methods that the Transport Control Protocol accommodates. As its name implies, FTP
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