Howard Winter wrote:

> However I came across a method I'd not seen before, yesterday.  It's an
> Axis video server, and its MAC address is also its serial number, on a
> label with a bar-code underneath.  Having powered-up the device and
> connected to the network, you start up a command-line session on a PC
> and then enter: 
> 
> ARP -s <Desired IP address> <MAC address> PING -l 408 -t <Desired IP
> address> 
> 
> This sets up a table entry so that the device is found from that PC as
> if it was on the IP address you've entered, and you can then PING it.  I
> presume the PING allows the device to detect the IP address it's being
> given, and perhaps the 408-byte length is a trigger for it to assume
> that address - anyway, that's what happens!  Thereafter you can start a
> browser and set up all the other parameters, using the IP address to
> access it - clever!  :-) 

The help for arp says that the -s entry is "permanent". This may mean that
it survives a reboot... Do you have the entry still in your list after
reboot ("arp -a")? If so, can you still talk to your device after you
remove the static entry?

Gerhard

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