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Summary of Antenna Tsunami MP.11
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Part number 72235r1 tsunami mp.11 models 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management version 2.4.
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management notices 2 copyright ©2006 proxim wireless corporation, san jose, ca. All rights reserved. Covered by one or more of the following u.S. Patents: 5,231,634; 5,875,179; 6,006,090; 5,809,060; 6,075,812; 5,077,753. This manual and th...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management contents 3 contents chapter 1. Overview .........................................................................................................................................6 about this book ....................................
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management contents 4 3) configure interface settings....................................................................................................................57 4) configure snmp parameters..........................................
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management contents 5 verifying proper operation of the vlan feature ......................................................................................128 troubleshooting link problems......................................................
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 1. Overview 6 chapter 1. Overview the tsunami mp.11 model 5054-r (hereinafter referred to as the 5054-r) and the model 2454-r (hereinafter referred to as the 2454-r) are flexible wireless outdoor routers that let you des...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 1. Overview 7 reference manual as a companion to the installation and management manual, the tsunami mp.11 reference manual provides the following supplemental information: command line interface documents the text-based...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 1. Overview 8 point-to-point link with a bsu and an su, it is easy to set up a wireless point-to-point link as depicted in the following figure. A point-to-point link lets you set up a connection between two locations as...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 1. Overview 9 power-over-ethernet the unit is equipped with an active ethernet module. Using power-over-ethernet (poe), you can provide electricity and wired connectivity to the unit over a single category 5 cable. Altho...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 10 chapter 2. Installation this chapter describes the steps required to install and mount the unit, and to align the antenna. An antenna cable is required only when you use the external antenna option. No...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 11 mounting hardware the mounting hardware can be one of the following two mounting kits, plus the hardware listed below. Mounting clamp extension mounting plate mounting clamp for wall/pole arm to enclos...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 12 2) pre-assemble the hardware before mounting the unit, note the ethernet and mac addresses of the su, as well as the serial number; these addresses may be used when configuring the bsu. The serial numb...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 13 notes: • the cable must feed through all parts of the weatherproof cap before the rj45 is crimped on the outdoor ethernet a cable. • the cable between the power injector and the 5054-r or 2454-r must b...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 14 5. Attach bracket connector (c) to bracket (e) with the screw and nut provided. 3) connect the cables 1. If you have not already done so, connect the normal rj45 connector on an outdoor-rated cat5 cabl...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 15 note: if you are connecting the pc directly to the unit, you must use a crossover ethernet cable between the network interface card in the pc and the rj45 “data in” port on the power injector. 4) power...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 16 green power is on and the ethernet link is up. Rf (wireless) link red power is on, unit is self-heating blinking green a wireless link is being established. Green a wireless link has been established. ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 17 to install the documentation and software on a computer or network: 1. Place the cd in a cd-rom drive. The installer normally starts automatically. (if the installation program does not start automatic...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 18 to allow for precise antenna alignment, small changes in snr result in large changes in the beep period. The alignment process averages the snr, which is represented by an average length beep. When a h...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 19 set aad disable disables antenna alignment display (ctrl-c also disables aad). 9) completing installation be sure you have re-installed the waterproof caps on the serial and ethernet port connections. ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 2. Installation 20 external antenna connection one model of the su has an integrated antenna; all other models have an external antenna connector (n-type) and no integrated antenna. For more information about external an...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 21 chapter 3. Management overview this chapter describes how to gain access to the unit for configuration and management. Connecting to the unit requires either: • a direct physical connection with...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 22 the enterprise mib (orinoco.Mib) defines the read and read/write objects you can view or configure using snmp. These objects correspond to most of the settings and statistics that are available ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 23 2. Select the unit for which you want to set the ip address and click change. The change dialog window is displayed, as shown in the following window. 3. To set the ip address manually, ensure t...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 24 starting the web interface the web interface provides a graphical user interface through which you can easily configure and manage the unit. This section describes only how to access the web int...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 25 changing basic configuration information to view or change basic system information, click the configure button on the left side of the web interface window, then click the system tab. See “conf...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 26 dynamic frequency selection (dfs) the tsunami mp.11 5054-r supports dynamic frequency selection (dfs) for european telecommunications standard institute (etsi) domains per en 301-893 regulations...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 27 radar detection is performed only by the bsu and not by the su. When an su is set to a country in which dfs is used, it scans all available channels upon startup looking for a bsu that best matc...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 28 • roaming will automatically select a channel on the su corresponding to the bsu channel. Roaming is the procedure in which an su terminates the session with the current bsu and starts the regis...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 29 concepts and definitions the software supports qos provisioning from the bsu only. You may define different classes of service on a bsu that can then be assigned to the sus that are associated, ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 30 8. Pppoe control a. Ethertype (type 1, 0x8863) 9. Pppoe data a. Ethertype (type 1, 0x8864) 10. Ip a. Ethertype (type 1, 0x800) 11. Arp a. Ethertype (type 1, 0x806) 12. Expedited forwarding a. Ip...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 31 note that traffic priority refers to the prioritization of this specific service flow. The software tries to deliver the packets within the specified latency and jitter requirements, relative to...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 3. Management overview 32 qos class a qos class is defined by a set of parameters that includes the pirs and sfcs that were previously configured. The software allows creating up to eight different qos classes, including...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 33 chapter 4. Basic management this chapter describes how to configure and monitor the unit’s basic features. In most cases, configuring these basic features is sufficient. A full overview of the web ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 34 note: saving of the unit’s configuration occurs only during a controlled reboot or by specifically issuing the cli save command. If you make changes to settings without a controlled reboot (command...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 35 general configuration settings system status the status tab showing the system status is displayed automatically when you log into the web interface. It is also the default window displayed when yo...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 36 monitoring settings the unit offers various facilities to monitor its operation and interfaces. Only the most significant monitoring categories are mentioned here. Wireless to monitor the wireless ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 37 default settings feature / model 5054-r 2454-r system name tsunami mp.11 5054-r tsunami mp.11 2454-r mode of operation bridge bridge routing disabled disabled ip address assignment type static stat...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 38 feature / model 5054-r 2454-r radius authentication disabled disabled encryption disabled disabled static mac address filter disabled / no entries disabled / no entries ethernet protocol filtering ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 4. Basic management 39 upgrading the unit the units are equipped with embedded software that can be updated when new versions are released. Updating the embedded software is described in “download files” on page 116, and...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 40 chapter 5. Using the web interface this section covers the unit’s web interface. The interface is described hierarchically according to these buttons, which appear on the left side of the we...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 41 view the event log contents click the status button and the event log tab to view the contents of your event log. The event log keeps track of events that occur during the operation of the u...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 42 configure the unit’s settings use the configure section to change the unit’s settings. The following tabs are in this section: 1. System parameters below 2. Network parameters on page 47 3. ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 43 field descriptions you can enter the following details: system name this is the system name for easy identification of the bsu or su. The system name field is limited to a length of 32 bytes...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 44 bridge and routing modes bridge mode a bridge is a product that connects a local area network (lan) to another local area network that uses the same protocol (for example, ethernet). You can...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 45 key reasons to use routing mode one key reason why customers would use routing mode is to implement virtual private networks (vpns) or to let nodes behind two different sus communicate with ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 46 notes: • one of the most important details to pay attention to in routing mode are the unit’s and the pc’s default gateways. It is a common mistake to set up the pc’s gateway to point to the...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 47 2) configure network parameters change ip parameters the ip configuration window lets you change the ip parameters. These settings differ when the unit is in routing mode. Click the configur...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 48 configure spanning tree options this protocol is executed between the bridges to detect and logically remove redundant paths from the network. Spanning tree can be used to prevent link-layer...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 49 configure ip routes (routing mode only) click the configure button, the network tab and the ip routes sub-tab to configure ip routes. You cannot configure ip routes in bridge mode. In routin...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 50 enter the route information and click add. The ip address and subnet mask combination is validated for a proper combination. Note: when adding a new entry, the ip address of the route destin...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 51 • the normal scanning procedure starts when the average local snr for the current bsu is less than or equal to the slow scanning threshold and the number of retransmitted frames is greater t...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 52 click the configure button, the network tab and the roaming sub-tab to configure roaming. The screen differs depending on whether the unit is configured as a bsu or as an su. Bsu screen enab...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 53 click edit table entries to make changes; enter your changes and click ok. Note that an su may roam from one bsu with a bandwidth setting to another bsu with a different bandwidth setting. S...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 54 su screen enable or disable the roaming feature in the roaming status drop-down box. The default value is disabled. Note: to enable roaming, you must enable roaming status on both the bsu an...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 55 field descriptions dhcp server status verify that dhcp relay agent is disabled. After you have made at least one entry in the dhcp server ip pool table, enable dhcp server by selecting “enab...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 56 end ip address indicates the ending ip address that is used for assigning address to hosts on the ethernet side in the configured subnet. Default lease time specifies the default lease time ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 57 enter the server ip address and any optional comments; click add. Edit/delete entries to the dhcp relay agent table click edit/delete table entries to make changes; enter your changes and cl...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 58 base mode – us country field descriptions interface type the interface type can be worp satellite or worp base. Network name a network name is a name given to a network so that multiple netw...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 59 snr [db] = signal level [dbm] – noise level [dbm] this information lets the sender adjust the transmission data rate to the optimal level to provide the best possible throughput. When you en...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 60 enable turbo mode check this box to enable turbo mode. Turbo mode is supported only in the united states, and only for the 5054-r. Turbo mode uses three adjacent channels for wireless data t...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 61 you can configure the satellite density to be large, medium, small, mini, or micro. The default value for this setting is large. The smaller settings are appropriate for high noise environme...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 62 active sfc is limited to send a single data message. Total throughput available to remaining best effort traffic is around 76% of the maximum available throughput. • multi-frame burst suppor...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 63 satellite mode – us country field descriptions all the fields that are common to both the bsu and the su are applicable here. The su features two additional fields: base station system name ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 64 base mode – non-us country field descriptions the differences between the bsu wireless interface screen for a non-us country and the equivalent screen for the us are: • there is no turbo mod...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 65 channel blacklist list. It is not possible to select the dfs preferred channel from those channels in the dfs channel blacklist list indicated as “enable”. Channel blacklist table the dfs ch...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 66 satellite mode – non-us country field descriptions the differences between the su wireless interface screen for a non-us country and the equivalent screen for the us are: • there is no turbo...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 67 configure the ethernet interface to set the ethernet speed, duplex mode, and input and output bandwidth limits, click the configure button, the interfaces tab, and the ethernet sub-tab. You ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 68 note the following: • there is no option to turn off receiving rip advertisements. Once the unit is in routing mode, it receives rip updates when there is another rip-enabled device advertis...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 69 rip example in the following example, assume that both the bsu and the sus all are configured in routing mode with rip enabled to send and receive on both the ethernet and wireless interface...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 70 rip notes • ensure that routers on the same physical network are configured to use the same version of rip. • routing updates occur every 30 seconds. It may take up to 3 minutes for a route ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 71 http (web) password the password for the web browser http interface. Enter a password in both the password field and the confirm field. The default password is public. Configure service para...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 72 telnet configuration settings note: to use hyperterminal for cli access, make sure to check “send line ends with line feeds” in the ascii setup window (click properties from the hypertermina...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 73 7) configure security parameters configure mac authentication click the configure button, the security tab, and the mac auth sub-tab to build a list of authorized wireless stations that can ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 74 configure radius authentication click the configure button, the security tab, and the radius auth sub-tab to set the ip address of the radius server containing the central list of mac addres...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 75 8) configure packet filtering click the configure button and the filtering tab to configure packet filtering. Packet filtering can be used to control and optimize network performance. Filter...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 76 sample use and validation configure the protocol filter to let only ip and arp traffic pass through the mp.11 (bridge) from one network segment to another. Then, attempt to use windows file ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 77 configure ethernet protocol filtering the ethernet protocol filter blocks or forwards packets based on the ethernet protocols they support. Click the configure button, the filtering tab, and...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 78 add entries to the ethernet protocol filter table to add an entry to the table, click add table entries, select the protocol name from the drop-down box and click the add button. To edit or ...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 79 click the configure button, the filtering tab, and the static mac sub-tab to access the static mac address filter. Each mac address or mask is comprised of 12 hexadecimal digits (0-9 and a-f...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 80 add entries to the static mac filter table to add the entries to filter table, click the add table entries button. After entering the data, click the add button. The entry is enabled automat...
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Tsunami mp.11 2454-r, 5054-r, and 5054-r-lr installation and management chapter 5. Using the web interface 81 static mac filter examples consider a network that contains a wired server and three wireless clients. The mac address for each unit is as follows: wired server: 00:40:f4:1c:db:6a wireless c...