ode physically and set a temporary static IP address on one of the network ports.</p>
<p>You might need to set a static address if your network does not support using self-assigned IP addresses (in the 169.254.*.* range) and your node does not receive an IP address automatically from a DHCP server.</p>
<p>Each node needs one IP address before it can be used to create a cluster or be added to an Avere cluster. These IP addresses are only used temporarily; during normal operation, the cluster assigns IP addre