Re: X32 Discussion
Subnet mask - always. Gateway or DNS - no, if both devices are on the same subnet and your using IP addresses.
Remember, a subnet mask is just that - a mask that shows the network stack in the computer or device which part of the IP address is the network portion, and which portion of the IP address is the host ID.
If you feed a system 192.168.0.5 without a subnet mask, what does that mean exactly? However, as soon as you set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 (or /24 in CIDR notation) 192.168.0. is instantly delineated as the network portion of the address and the .5 portion of the address is the host (the one is masked out from the other). If you set the console to 192.168.0.5 and the computer to 192.168.0.10 and both have a SNM of 255.255.255.0 then both devices know they don't need to look for the gateway since they are both on the same network.
Again, I think it would be great if B offered MAC configuration option similar to what Microtek does for their routers - no network information at all is required, just a physical connection of each device to the same network broadcast domain (one switch, multiple switches - just no router in the mix). XControl shows the MAC addresses of X32's it "see's" on the network. They could clean it up to pick up the name of the console and show that too - but I would be surprised if folks had more than 2 X32's on a network in any significant numbers - heck, most will probably be by themselves and thus even more self evident of whom is who.
