IP Addressing

Badges are most easily configured and administered as a group. Consequently, you should use a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server to assign IP addresses to the badges dynamically.

Ensure that you manually specify a default DHCP gateway in the B3N.GatewayIPAddr or B3.GatewayIPAddr property in the badge.properties file. Vocera uses this property for multicast sessions also when badges and the Vocera Voice Server are in the same VLAN.

Ensure that the DHCP uses the following values as part of the DHCP scope for Vocera that is configured in your corporate DHCP server:

IP Address
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway

Avoid assigning static IP addresses, because you must configure each badge manually. This is a slow and potentially error-prone process. You should use static IP addresses only in the following scenarios:

You are setting up a small evaluation system.
Static IP addresses are mandatory at your site.

Note: For more information, refer to About Assigning Static IP Addresses in the Vocera Badge Configuration Guide.