How to program BMW KOMBI and Nbtwith ENET E sys cable ICOM A2

This is what to set the Router or DHCP server for BMW KOMBI and NBT programming with Enet e sys cable or ICOM A2 ista-p.

Why LAN Cable Connection better than Wi-Fi from Rounter to PC:

Because Ista P does not the support WLAN connections. Probably due to stability liability.

Ista p does not support WiFi (WLAN) and would not start Ista P server if the Wi-Fi is enabled on the laptop, only Ista p CLI ENT would open and you cannot select Istap Server to program. Imagine if the WiFi connection drops during programming then the car was screwed up. There is good reasons why BMW doesn ' t allow programming via WiFi

How to use the Router programming:

ICOM and computer must is connected through a router with DHCP server enabled. No direct connection laptop, Icom.

But you don ' t has to use a router. Need a DHCP server running on the laptop on the Ethernet interface.

It ' s pretty easy,

1) Set a static IP on the Ethernet (not wireless) Interface–i use 192.168.254.1
2) Install DHCP Server (http://www.dhcpserver.de)
3) Configure DHCP server to listen on the Ethernet interface
4) Click on the buttons to set firewall ports and run as service
5) Connect up your ICOM Scanner and it ' ll get a DHCP address from the DHCP server

Then you can program everything without faults.

I Use the multiple ISPI laptops and never had an issue and never needed a router to connect the computer and ICOM to.

This was a customer share of configuration that worked flawless:

Router DHCP, Icom DHCP and Windows ethernet:automatic DHCP
First of all the ICOM A2 should is configured this by:

ICOM Config

Connectionmode = Static_ip
Ip = 192.168.68.85
Netmask = 255.255.255.0
Gateway = 192.168.68.99

Dhcpsrv. Ini
[SETTINGS]
ippool_1=192.168.68.1-254
ipbind_1=192.168.68.99
Associatebindstopools=1
Trace=1
Deleteonrelease=0
expiredleasetimeout=3600

[General]
leasetime=86400
Nodetype=8
subnetmask=255.255.255.0
nextserver=192.168.68.99
router_0=192.168.68.1

[Dns-settings]
Enabledns=0

[Tftp-settings]
Enabletftp=0
Root=c:\users\osx\desktop\dhcp\wwwroot
Writepermission=0

[Http-settings]
Enablehttp=0
Root=c:\users\osx\desktop\dhcp\wwwroot
[00-01-a9-00-ee-e9]
ipaddr=192.168.68.1
autoconfig=06/26/2016 12:41:32
hostname=icom1120134
leaseend=1467070189

Windows Ethernet Config:

"Use the following IP address"
IP 192.168.68.99
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

BMW ICOM or ENET Cable:which better for Flash

There is problems with both ICOM and ENET. ENET can ' t flash all ZGW modules and ICOM can ' t flash no NBT units (including all other control units in the most bus like KO MBI, AMP and so on). Fix is the same-both, use DHCP server to assign IP adresses. With ENET you can flash NBT even without DHCP server and with ICOM you can flash ZGW without DHCP server. You can even flash whole car without DHCP server by first flashing the ZGW with ICOM and then flashing the rest with ENET.

I meant that ENET is no worse than ICOM, and the very very likely original ICOM is no worse than ENET. Anyway the difference is academic. Chinese cloned ICOM ' s can be worse than ENET. New original ICOM Next costs around 510 euros, I think that there are no different between it and ENET in reliability. I don ' t even remember when I last time used ICOM for f-series flashing, it is over a year ago anyway.

KOMBI and NBT Programming review:

I flashed several f10,f20 with 3.56.4 and ICOM A2 through DHCP and its working well.
Most connection is used in EXX series, I flashed also some R56 and many E91 with the most connection.

Just add a router and connect the icom to it and offcourse your laptop to the router.
Open a browser and TYPE:IP address of your icom:60080 (User name:root password:nzy11502) and change LAN setting to DHCP . Reboot icom and check with Itoolrader the new IP address of your icom. It should be 192.168.x.x
Fire up Ista-p and do your coding.

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How to program BMW KOMBI and Nbtwith ENET E sys cable ICOM A2