Administrator Functions > Finding an IP Address and network name

The Help About screen provides the administrator a quick view of the ip address and network. All StageDirector devices need to be on the same network.

This means that all boxes should have similar IP(Internet Protocol) addresses.

The IP address is referred to as a dotted decimal. As long as the first 3 groups of numbers are the same the machines will be on the same network. the 4th dotted decimal must be unique for that network.

Utilities to see whether an IP address is available is to use PING

PING 192.168.2.2 will for instance send a signal on the network to see if that device is alive and available. Typically a ping is used for detecting the master with If it is available the system will respond

Reply from 191.168.2.2: bytes =32 time=1ms TTL=64

This means that the device 192.168.2.2 is responding correctly

If the device is not available. ie The master machine is not networked it will respond

from a ping in the following manner

Request timed out

Ping statistics for 192.168.2.2:

Packets: Sent = 4 Received = 0 Lost = 4 (100% Loss)

Example of networked ip addresses

Device 1 192.168.2.1

Device 2 192.168.2.3

shows 2 devices on the same network

Examples of ip address NOT on the same network

example 1

Device 1 192.168.2.1

Device 2 191.168.1.3

example 2

Device 1 10.0.0.1

Device 2 167.12.9.1

Each example shows 2 devices that are NOT on the same network