I have a 2560 and an ethernet shield. I'm just getting started with this project and this is my first time using an Ethernet shied. I've been at the documents and for examples explaining how to configure an Ethernet shield. Following is from Examples/Ethernet/UdpNtpClient. In the different examples…

Ethernet Shield setup

johnwasser May 27, 2018, 4:27pm 3

To use a static IP address, look in the reference manual for Ethernet.begin().

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