Technical information

160 Eaton RF-System - Help

Ethernet Routing activated, used as Ethernet-Communication node

To change the settings of the Ethernet Routing go to the Network settings of the ECI and

activate/deactivate the option ‚Allow Ethernet Routing‘. An ECI can only be used as an Ethernet

communication node if the Ethernet Routing is basically allowed. Ethernet Routing can only be

deactivated if the ECI is not used as Ethernet communication node. To set the ECI as Ethernet

communication node you have to right click the Topology-area of this ECI and check it as Ethernet

Communication node in the Popup-Menu of the Topology-View.

There can be more than one ECI as Ethernet communication node of a Topology-area. When

calculating connections the best possible Communication node will be chosen.

Every ECI in the project needs to have a unique IP-address. For the Ethernet Routing it is

important that all devices are loaded and that there are no ECI with the same IP address in the

project. In the MRF options you have the possibility to choose if the ECI’s use the IPv4 or the IPv6

address for the Ethernet Routing. Depending on this setting either the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the

ECI needs to be defined in the network settings.

Every ECI has its own webserver that you can reach by entering the ECI’s IP address in your

browser (LAN connection must be available). The default Login name and password are both

“admin”. The default IPv4 address of a new ECI is "192.168.42.30" and the Ipv6 address

"fd88:8d0d:632a:d855:0000:0000:0000:0030/64". The webserver can be used to change network

settings, do software updates and change various other settings.

Direct connection to an ECI:

A direct connection of an xComfort RF device to the ECI is working similar to a connection to a

Home-Manager or an USB-CI. Already existing connections can be seen by “Popup-Menu ->

Settings”.