IP.GATEWAY

Description

This Parameter sets the Gateway IP of the drive. This parameter determines what IP the drive can communicate with outside of its current subnet.

By default, DHCP is active, and the drive will acquire an IP Address on its own. When the drive is in DHCP mode, IP.GATEWAY will return 0.0.0.0.

Notes:

When the drive is in DHCP, the actual IP GATEWAY will not be returned using this command. The value the user has stored will be returned.

IP.GATEWAY will only be used by the drive when IP.MODE = 1

If manually setting the IP.ADDRESS, the IP.SUBNET and IP.GATEWAY must be set up. After the IP.RESET command is issued, the new IP settings will be active only if IP.MODE has been set to 1.

This parametr is R/O on AKD-C and AKD-N.

Recovering communications with a drive on an un-reachable IP address

Sometimes a drive may be configured for an IP Address, and the drive needs to be taken off-line, and bench tested, or otherwise used outside of its saved IP Settings. If IP.MODE has been set to 1 (using software defined static IP) the drive will boot up on an IP Address that may be unreachable with the host computer’s settings.

If the IP address prevents communication the IP settings can be reset to default by the following procedure:

Set both rotary switches to 0

Hold down button B1 (top-side of drive) for 5 seconds.

The display will flash 0.0.0.0 and then attempt to discover an address by DHCP. Without removing logic power from the drive, use Workbench to connect to the drive, reconfigure the IP address settings as desired, and store the values to non-volatile memory.

General Information

Type	NV Parameter
Units	N/A
Range	0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
Default Value	0.0.0.0
Data Type	IP Address
See Also	Communicating with the Drive
Start Version	M_01-04-05-000