Access The Switch From A Mac Using A Firefox Plug-In; Set Up A Fixed Ip Address For The Switch - NETGEAR GS908E User Manual

8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch Model GS908E

Access the Switch From a Mac Using a Firefox Plug-In

If your Mac does not support Bonjour, you can access the switch by using the Mozilla Firefox browser and
the Ciaociao plug-in.
To access the switch from a Mac using Firefox with the Ciaociao plug-in and discover the
IP address of the switch:
1. Open the Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ciaociao/.
3. Download and install the Ciaociao plug-in.
4. Click the Ciaociao icon, which looks like a globe.
A pop-up window opens, displaying links with the detected switches and other devices in the network.
Each link shows the network name and MAC address of the detected device.
5. Click the link for the switch.
The login page of the local browser interface opens.
6. Enter the switch password.
The default password is password. The password is case-sensitive.
The HOME page displays.
The right pane (or, depending on the size of your browser window, the middle pane) shows the IP
address that is assigned to the switch.
Tip You can copy and paste the IP address into a new shortcut or bookmark it for quick access
on your computer or mobile device. However, if you reboot the switch, a dynamic IP
address (assigned by a DHCP server) might change and the bookmark might no longer
link to the login page for the switch. In this case, you must repeat
so that you can discover the new IP address of the switch in the network and update your
bookmark accordingly. You can also set up a fixed (static) IP address for the switch (see

Set Up a Fixed IP Address for the Switch

always links to the login page for the switch, even after you reboot the switch.
Set Up a Fixed IP Address for the Switch
By default, the switch receives an IP address from a DHCP server (or a router that functions as a DHCP
server) in your network. However, the DHCP server might not always issue the same IP address to the
switch. For easy access to the switch local browser interface, you can set up a fixed (static) IP address on
Install and Access the Switch in Your Network
on page 15) to make sure that the new bookmark
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