If you do plug it directly into the NIC in your computer you might want to set the address to 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x or 10.0.0.x as they are for private networks
RFC1918 name IP address range number of addresses classful description largest CIDR block (subnet mask) host id size mask bits
24-bit block 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 16,777,216 single class A network 10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0) 24 bits 8 bits
20-bit block 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 1,048,576 16 contiguous class B network 172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0) 20 bits 12 bits
16-bit block 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 65,536 256 contiguous class C network 192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0) 16 bits 16 bits
Thanks Caretaker - I will give that a try.
I can plug my ED into my switch but I would prefer to plug it directly into my NIC on my PC. If I go direct, do I need to do anything special?? I set the static IP address to 168.100.100.101 already.
Thanks for the the input.
