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USER’S GUIDE
network management card
12
The role of the Default Gateway in resetting the
network timer
Most networks will have some level of broadcast traffic which will be
received by the Management Card and reset the 9.5-minute timer back to
zero. But it is possible (for example, late at night) that the Management
Card will not see any traffic for 9.5 minutes. Since it is not desirable for the
Management Card to reboot just because the network is quiet, the
Management Card will attempt to contact the default gateway
approximately once every 4.5 minutes. If the gateway is present, it will
respond to the Management Card and the 9.5-minute timer will be reset to
zero.
If your application does not require a gateway or does not have one, specify
the
IP address of a computer on the same subnet which is up and running
on the network most of the time. This will have the same effect as
configuring a gateway.
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