MVP5200i Connection/Setup

vining

When setting up the MVP5200i and on the System Settings page do not change the settings under the USB/IP Settings header, or possibly if you do don't make them the IP address of the Master.

I just recieved mine today and in the exitement to get up and running I at some point changed these settings to the Master's IP and it's subnet 255.255.255.224 and I couldn't connect. I had the settings correct under Master connection but re-tried them as well, re-entered the encrytion key several times, etc, etc. No joy. In frustration I grab another one out of the box and commenced to set it up but this time I didn't change the USB/IP Settings and I connected w/o a hitch. Went back to the first 5200i changed the USB/IP Settings back to the original values, rebooted and connected no problem.

Now I'm probably the only idiot that will make this mistake since I'm always in a rush and rarely read before doing but just in case some one does this, don't.

Marc Scheibein

With this subnet mask, are panel and master in the range i.e. 192.168.1.1 .. 31?

The in a c-class subnet (255.255.255.xxx), value 224 only allows IP addresses 1..31

vining

Actually I'm using subsets 2 & 3 and using the .32 LAN IP, .33 for router_1, hosts are .34 - .63 and the 2nd subset uses the LAN IP .64, .65 for router_2 and then hosts start at .66 - .98 or something.

In hind sight I shouldn't have broken it to 8 subsets using the .224 netmask and should have used the .192 netmask instead so I could have 64 hosts per group. The 32 per group is just barely enough (for now) and I think in the future VLANs would be a better way to go.