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Trendnet - TE100-P21: Management Network 16 July 2006

The values showns are the default. At this point, no other setup has been performed. Eventually, I added some entries to my DHCP server to assign this unit a static IP address.

The following shows the entry I added to /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf. Given the MAC address for the device, it will always be given the IP address associated with the hostname gutenberg.example.org.

host gutenberg {
   hardware ethernet 00:14:d1:8b:6b:26;
   fixed-address gutenberg.example.org;
}

In addition to the above, I created the following entries in my DNS zone files for example.org (not my real domain name):

gutenberg    IN  A   10.0.0.93

As well as the corresponding reverse lookup entry in my 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa zone:

136 IN  PTR gutenberg.unixathome.org.

Of course, you could ignore the above and just assign the device a static IP address using the configuration interface. That's the quick and dirty way, and it will work.

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