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Use a connection method — wired or wireless — that your DMP and topology both support.
Tip Physical Ethernet connections take priority over 802.11 b/g on DMPs where both are active. To learn which connection methods your DMP supports, see . Alternatively, if the table does not describe your DMP model, see its datasheet at http://cisco.com/go/dms/dmp/datasheets.
The factory-default behavior for every DMP is to obtain and use a dynamic IP address from a DHCP server in its local network segment.
Nonetheless, your DMP must have an IP address — even when you will deploy it where the local network segment does not include any DHCP server among its nodes!
In this case, you must configure your DMP before you deploy it. This technique is sometimes called a green field deployment. The configuration steps differ in Ethernet and wireless networks.
Step 1 Plug one end of a standard Ethernet cable into the corresponding socket on your DMP.
Step 2 Plug the other end of this cable into a network hub, network switch, or router whose network uses DHCP to allocate IP addresses dynamically.
Step 3 Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Note You can configure wireless network settings during a later phase of DMP setup, if your DMP supports this feature. However, there are other tasks that you must finish first. When you are ready to configure wireless settings, these topics say how.