UAS IP Address Ranges
- Conor McCaffrey (Unlicensed)
General
The IP address and the range used for BFD aircraft follows a simple scheme
[10] . [Client Specific ID] . [Drone Specific ID] . [Device Address]
Pre-Determined Device Addresses
10.x.y.1 Aircraft-Side Network Radio
10.x.y.2 Flight Controller
10.x.y.20 Video Encoder 1
10.x.y.21 Video Encoder 2
10.x.y.25 FPV Video Encoder
10.x.y.101 Ground-Side Network Radio
10.x.y.102 Primary Ground Control Station (If provided by BFD Systems)
10.x.y.110 Tether Unit Ground Router
10.x.y.120 Second Ground-Side Network Radio
Device Address Ranges (/24 Subnet Address Usage)
1-49: Reserved for Aircraft on-board equipment
51-99: Automatically assigned to aircraft side payloads through DHCP
101-149: Reserved for ground station equipment
151-199: Automatically assigned to ground-side network equipment through DHCP
50, 100, 150: Reserved for Future Use
200: QoS Priority IP address reserved for customer use
201-254: Static IP address range reserved for customer use
BFD Systems – 2020