Originally Posted by compufunk  Important, You must know what IP address your DB will have, post flash erase. My DB always gets the same IP address from the router when I use DHCP. The IP is assigned based on MAC address, so never changes from image to image.
If someone else can, please chip in with a way of figuring out your IP address otherwise. |
Haven't tried it myself but I'm pretty sure this cheap, cheerful and somewhat laborious method would work for genuine Dreamboxes:
Open a Command Prompt on your PC and enter
ipconfig
This will show you your PC's own IP address and the default gateway address. Let's assume they are 192.168.10.2 and 192.168.10.1. What we have to do is a manual scan for other IP addresses on the LAN (using
ping) until we find the Dreambox (using
arp). I'll also assume a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.
Take the first three bytes of the addresses we've already found, in this case 192.168.10, and append the first number greater than 0 that will give us an IP address your LAN which hasn't already been identified, i.e. not your PC or the default gateway. In our example, that would be 3, giving us the first possible IP address to check: 192.168.10.3. Enter
ping 192.168.10.3
If there isn't an immediate reply, press Ctrl-C to interrupt the ping and move onto the next unused address, in this case 192.168.10.4. Up-arrow will bring back the previous command for editing. When you get a reply from an IP address, enter
arp -a
This will bring up a table of known IP addresses and the corresponding physical (MAC) addresses. If the physical address starts 00-09-34, you have the IP address of your Dreambox. If not, you have found another device on your LAN and should continue with a ping of the next IP address in the sequence. 254 is the top of the range and you can't continue past this, although with any luck the Dreambox should be located long before you get into three figures.