User's Manual

Wifx L1 User manual revision 1.0

6.3 NETWORK

6.3.1 MDNS

The gateway will announce itself through the mDNS protocol (aka Zeroconf, Bonjour) with its default hostname on

the ‘.local’ domain. The default hostname is composed of the prefix l1- and the last 6 characters of the MAC address

as lowercase: l1-xxxxxx.

This means that you can reach your gateway with the following address: l1-xxxxxx.local.

Example

The gateway MAC address show on the sticker is FC:C2:3D:AA:BB:CC

This hostname is therefore l1-aabbcc

You can reach the gateway at l1-aabbcc.local

To contact the gateway through mDNS, your network must support this feature (with IGMP snooping disabled)

and you must be on the same subnetwork than the gateway to contact.

6.3.2 SSH

The gateway provides an SSH server and be accessed through SSH as soon as configured and connected to a working

network using an SSH client program like PuTTY or ssh on Linux.

To access the gateway with SSH:

1. Power up the gateway

2. A terminal program like PuTTY or ssh can be used with the following parameters:

address IP address or mDNS hostname

port 22

3. Accept the RSA key fingerprint if asked

6.3.3 WEB INTERFACE

The gateway provides a web graphical interface and can be accessed through your favorite web explorer.

As explained previously, you can reach the gateway through its IP address or through mDNS. Also, you can choose

between HTTP (not secure) and HTTPs (SSL secured) by prefixing the address with http:// respectively https://.

Example

For the IP address 192.168.1.148, you can reach the gateway using http://192.168.1.148 or

https://192.168.1.148. This is also correct with mDNS as you could reach the gateway with http://l1-aabbcc.local

or https://l1-aabbcc.local.