SmartBridges airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL sB3412 User Manual
Summary of airClient Nexus PRO TOTAL sB3412
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Copyright © smartbridges pte ltd. All rights reserved. U n w i r i n g o u r w o r l d t m airclient™ nexus pro total sb3412 user guide version 1.0
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Page 2 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide table of contents about this document ..................................................................................................................4 technical support center ...................
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Page 3 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 8.1.3 ntp time server setup ......................................................................................64 8.2 p rofile m anager ...........................................................
Page 4: About This Document
Page 4 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide about this document this user guide is for the networking professional who configures and manages the smartbridges’ intelligent nexus platform of wireless client device, the airclient™ nexus pro ...
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Page 5 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide technical support center comprehensive technical support by dedicated smartbridges engineers is available to all customers through the smartbridges support center website. The website provides up...
Page 6: 1. Introduction
Page 6 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 1. Introduction this user guide provides information on how to set-up and deploy the airclient nexus pro total unit. A web-based management tool is provided to assist the user to configure the ac...
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Page 7 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 1.2. Checklists pre-installation checklist for airclient nexus pro total organization name/site name address city state zip code telephone number site survey and link planning no parameters units...
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Page 8 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide no parameters units site a site b 21 type of external cable type lmr 400/lmr600/ 22 length of external cable connecting a radio and antenna feet/meters 23 fade margin taken into account for a lin...
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Page 9 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide post-installation checklist for acnpt organization name/site name address city state zip code telephone number general configuration information no parameters units site a site b 1 radio operatio...
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Page 10 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide checklist no parameters units site a site b 1 check the crimping of the ethernet cable at both the ends yes/no 2 check the proper grounding of the equipment yes/no 3 ensure that there are no ext...
Page 11: 2. Acnpt Configuration
Page 11 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2. Acnpt configuration the airclient nexus pro total can work in one of three modes: bridge, router and nat. The procedures for configuring the various parameters in each mode are outlined in th...
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Page 12 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 2-2 license agreement page figure 2-3 acnpt summary information page.
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Page 13 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide the page information descriptions are provided in the table below: table 2-1 description of parameters 2.2. Web gui administrator password change by default the administrator password is smartbr...
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Page 14 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.3. Using the configuration pages the acnpt nexus configuration system comprises several pages for configuring each parameter. A common navigation menu bar is provided at the top of each page f...
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Page 15 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide menu item menu sub-items description bridge configuration displays the bridge address, generic bridge port table, spanning tree port table for ports eth a, eth b, radio a., etc bridge configurat...
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Page 16 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide security security: allows user to set the wep keys and to choose between open/shared system modes of authentication. Wpa-psk: where encryption keys are automatically changed (called rekeying) an...
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Page 17 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide operational mode: allows the user to set the radio operational mode. Profile manager save profile: allows user to define and save up to three device operating profiles for easy device management...
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Page 18 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.4. Device mode configuration the device operational mode is displayed at the top right hand corner of each page. The device mode configuration allows the user to configure the acnpt in bridge,...
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Page 21 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.7. Acnpt bridge configuration the acnpt in bridge mode can associate only with a smartbridges airpoint access point in bridge mode (sb3210) as they both use wds link implementation. It can ass...
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Page 22 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.7.2. Wireless configuration the wireless parameters need to be configured to allow the acnpt in bridge mode to associate with an airpoint™ (sb3210) in bridge mode. Follow the steps below to co...
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Page 23 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 2-11 radio main (wireless settings page) - associated click on ‘status’ to view the association link-status graph. Figure 2-12 link status noise floor is the measure of the signal created...
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Page 24 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.7.3. Bridge configuration in bridge mode the acnpt unit acts as a transparent bridge between the radio and the ethernet interfaces. The figure below shows the bridge configuration and the tabl...
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Page 25 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.7.5. Stp settings configuration stp is disabled by default. The table below lists the default stp settings when the stp is enabled. Table 2-3 default stp values setting default value range pur...
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Page 26 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide ethernet port (eth b) priority 128 0-255 the preference that stp gives to this port relative to the other ports for forwarding traffic out of the spanning tree. A higher numerical value means a ...
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Page 27 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 10. Enter the values of ethernet port priority and/or port path cost for etha. 11. Enter the values of ethernet port priority and/or port path cost for ethb. 12. Enter the values of ethernet por...
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Page 28 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.8. Acnpt router/nat configuration the acnpt unit can also be configured in router or nat mode which behaves like infrastructure mode. The procedures for configuring the parameters in router/na...
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Page 29 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.8.2. Wireless configuration the wireless parameters need to be configured to allow the acnpt router/nat unit to associate with an airpoint or any third party access point. Follow these steps b...
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Page 30 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 2-17 acnpt router wireless association settings click on ‘status’ to view the association link-status graph. After getting the associated the page looks as follows figure 2-18 wireless se...
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Page 31 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 2-19 link status page noise floor is the measure of the signal created from the sum of all the noise sources and unwanted signals within a measurement system. Note: if the association sta...
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Page 32 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 6. Enter dns server ip address(es). 7. Click on the ’apply changes’ to change the settings. Note : the system will validate the input parameters and notify users of invalid entries. The starting...
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Page 33 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.8.4. Dhcp relay configurations if the user has a dhcp server, the acnpt router can be configured as a dhcp relay agent of the dhcp server for ip address assignment. Follow the steps below to c...
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Page 34 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.8.5. Routing table the acnpt router web-interface provides viewing of the routes and allows for adding and deleting of the static routes for the acnpt router mode only. To view the route entry...
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Page 35 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 2-24 adding static route 2.8.6. Wireless settings management the radio configuration main page can be accessed from the radio menu. The contents will be slightly different for each mode, ...
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Page 36 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.8.7. Wireless settings the following table summarizes the information for the wireless settings. Table 2-4 wireless settings page items descriptions ssid this is the current ssid. User can cha...
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Page 37 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 2.8.8. Security the different types of security that can be configured on a remote router/nat are as follows: 1. Wep only 2. Wpa –radius 3. Wpa –psk 4. Wpa2-radius 5. Wpa2-psk note: default secu...
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Page 38 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 4. Choose a wep key size (64 bits or 128 bits) from the pull-down list. Wep key length is 10 characters for 64 bits and 26 characters for 128 bits. 5. Choose a valid key from the pull-down list....
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Page 39 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure: 2-27 configuring wpa-psk table 2-6 wpa descriptions page items descriptions wpa-psk wpa-psk is an extra-strong encryption where encryption keys are automatically changed (called rekeying...
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Page 40 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 3. Enter the user id and the password in the dialog box provided 4. In order to validate the certificates, click on the validate certificate radio button ( ). A dialog box appears with a browser...
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Page 41 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 2-30 authentications between the supplicant and the authentication server the wireless client (laptop) is known as the supplicant. The access point is known as the authenticator and the r...
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Page 42 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 3. Performance parameters and bandwidth controller this chapter gives instructions for editing the wireless radio protocol parameters to optimize radio performance and changing the bandwidth con...
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Page 43 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide throughput optimizer the throughput optimizer is used to optimize the radio link speed and performance. The valid range is 0 to 10. The default value is 6. Setting a higher value will cause the ...
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Page 44 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 3.2. Bandwidth controller using the bandwidth controller on the acnpt, the user can limit the wireless link bandwidth for the upload/download speed. The default is disabled and provides bandwidt...
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Page 45 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 3-3 added list.
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Page 46 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 4. Quality of service (qos) the primary goal of qos is to provide priority for certain applications by dedicating bandwidth, controlling jitter and latency (which are required by some real-time ...
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Page 47 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 4-2: qos front page in total, there are 9 different classes which can be configured. Note: class 1 indicates the default value. In order to define the filters for a class, follow the step...
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Page 48 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 3. Select whether the packet has to be filtered based on the ip or mac. Figure 4-4: selection menu of ip/mac based filter 4. Select whether the packet has to be filtered based on source address ...
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Page 49 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 4-6: ip address dialog box. 5. Select the port, either destination or source based and select the port number from the drop down menu. You can also select a customized the port number. Fi...
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Page 50 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 4-8: selection menu of type of port (it can be customized by the user with the port number). 6. Assign a tos value between 1 and 255. Every ip packet sent over the network includes a tos ...
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Page 51 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 4-10: selected filter list window 8. After adding the desired filters to the list, click on the apply changes to save the configuration of the filters. There will be a confirmation pop up...
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Page 52 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 4-12: added filters 9. The filters added can be deleted by first selecting the added filters from the list and then clicking on “delete selected filters “. Figure 4-13: delete selected fi...
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Page 53 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 12. In order to enable a particular class, click on the radio button. Tick mark indicates that the particular class is enabled. In order to disable, click on the radio button and the tick mark d...
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Page 55 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 6. Antenna alignment antenna alignment can be used to optimize the radio performance and check the rssi. To access the antenna alignment, go to the menu bar under tools and choose ‘antenna align...
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Page 56 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide note: a jump in the audio frequency from low to high indicates that the rssi is increasing and vice versa..
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Page 58 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide transmitted error the number of unicast and multicast packets that could not be or were not successfully transmitted by the device. Received bytes total number of packets received through the pa...
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Page 59 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide rts fail total number of transmitted rts frames for which no response cts frame was received. Rts success total number of cts frames received in response to the rts frames. No of aborted frames ...
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Page 60 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 8. Tools here you will find the relevant information for conducting the different reset options, using the profile manager and doing a link test as well as estimating the link budget. 8.1 system...
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Page 61 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide the following page summarizes the page contents of the system configuration page. Table 8-1 system configuration page items page item descriptions. System name displays name of acnpt unit allows...
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Page 62 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 8.1.1 snmp security the user can edit the snmp community string and snmp access filters. The snmp community needs to match with the snmp monitoring software used. The snmp access filters allows ...
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Page 63 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 8.1.2 reset options all reset options power cycles the device and restarts the whole system. Reset: to reset the device. The device will reboot with the current configuration/values. Reset to de...
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Page 64 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 8.1.3 ntp time server setup the device time comes from the network time information source. The device needs access to a network timer (ntp time server) source. The ntp time server ip can be con...
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Page 65 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 8-5 profile manager table 8-3 description of commands page item descriptions save as: select which profile name to save for the current configuration profile description: specify a descri...
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Page 66 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 8.2.1 save profile follow the steps below to save the current configuration to a profile: 1. Select a profile name from ‘save as’. 2. Enter a description of the profile. 3. Click the ‘save profi...
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Page 68 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 8-7 ping test result when the acnpt is associated with an airpoint nexus, you can do a throughput test to test the speed of the link. Follow the steps below to do a throughput test: 1. En...
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Page 69 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 8-8 throughput test result 8.4 link budget planning link budget planning is a very useful tool for link budget estimation. The link budget planning calculator can be accessed from the nav...
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Page 70 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 8-9 link budget planning calculator gps calculator once the distance is computed follow the steps below for the link budget calculations: 1. Select the radio mode for station 1 and 2. 2. ...
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Page 71 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 8-10 link budget planning calculator link budget.
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Page 72 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide 9. Firmware upgrade the latest firmware for acnpt nexus is available for download from the smartbridges support website at http://www.Smartbridges.Com/support/ the acnpt nexus unit firmware can ...
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Page 73 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide figure 9-2 acnpt nexus firmware upgrade (firmware transferred) figure 9-3 successful upgrade pop-up window.
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Page 74 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide appendix a – snmp trap acnpt nexus generates a snmp trap that can be forwarded to the snmp trap server. The snmp trap server ip address is set in section. The following table provides a list of ...
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Page 75 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide appendix b – useful terms and definitions acronyms and abbreviations mac media access control acnpt acnpt nexus pro total rssi receive signal sensitivity indication ssid service set identifier d...
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Page 76 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide wep according to the ieee 802.11 standard, wired equivalent privacy (wep) is intended to provide “confidentiality that is subjectively equivalent to the confidentiality of a wired local area net...
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Page 77 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide dhcp dhcp stands for ‘dynamic host configuration protocol’ and is a means for networked computers to get their tcp/ip networking settings from a central server. Importantly, dhcp assigns ip addr...
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Page 78 of 78 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airclient™ nexus pro total user guide appendix c – license acnpt nexus is copyright © 2004-2005 by smartbridges. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted pro...