SmartBridges sB3410 manual

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Page 2 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT .......................................................................................................... 4 Overview of User Guide .................................................................................................[...]

Page 3 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 7.2. P ROFILE M ANAGER ....................................................................................................... 52 7.2.1. Save Profile ........................................................................................................ 53 7.2.2. Lo[...]

Page 4 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e About This Document This User Guide is for the networking professional who configures and manages the smartBridges’ Intelligent Nexus Platform of w ireless client devices (airClient™ Nexus). It pr ovides det ail ed inf orma tion on usi ng t he web -bas ed c onfig[...]

Page 5 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Technical Support Center Comprehensive technical support by dedicated smartBridges engineers is available t o all customers through the smartBridges support center website. The website provides updated tools and documents to help troubleshoot and resolve technical is[...]

Page 6 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 1. Introduction This User Guide provides information on how to set-up a nd deploy the airClient unit. A w eb-based management tool is provided to a ssist the user to configure the airClient unit for differen t purposes. The ai rCl ient web- bas ed ma nage men t to ol[...]

Page 7 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 1.2. Checklists Pre-Installation Check list for airClient Organization Name/Site Name Addr ess City State Zip Code Telephone N umber Site Survey and Link Planning No Parameters Units Site A Site B 1 Regulatory Standard to be followed FCC/ETSI 2 Freq uency Band 2.4GHz[...]

Page 8 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e No Parameters Units Site A Site B 22 Length of external cable connecting a Radio and antenna Feet/meters 23 Fade Margin taken into account for a link budgeting Ideally between 10 to 20 dBm 24 Model of smartBridges airClient equipment selected for a li nk. Please refe[...]

Page 9 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Post-Installation Check list for airClient Organization Name/Site Name Addr ess City State Zip Code Telephone N umber General Configuration Informat ion No Parameters Units Site A Site B 1 Radio operations Mode Bridge /Router/N AT 2 SSI D of a Radio Up to 32 characte[...]

Page 10 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Chec kli st No Parameters Units Site A Site B 1 Check out the crimping of the Ethernet cable at both the ends Yes/No 2 Check out the proper grounding of the antenna and equipment Yes/No 3 Ensure no extreme bends or kink's in the cable Yes/No 4 Ens ure E ther ne[...]

Page 11 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2. airClient Configuration The airClient can work in one of three modes: Bridge, Router or NAT. The procedures for configuring the various parameters in each mode are outlined in this chapter. 2.1. User Login and License Agreement The airClient unit comes w ith a pr[...]

Page 12 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 2-2 License Agreement Page Fig ure 2-3 Ne xus S ummary I nfor mation Page[...]

Page 13 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e The page information descriptions are provided in the table below : Table 2-1 Description of Parameters 2.2. Web GUI Administra tor Password Change By default the ad ministrator passw ord is smartBridges (case s ensit ive ). Follow the steps below to change the Admi[...]

Page 14 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2.3. Using the Conf iguration Pages The a irClient Ne xus config uration sy stem comp rises se veral pag es for co nfiguring e ach pa rameter. A common navigation menu bar is provided at the top of each page for easy na vigation as shown in the figure b elow. Figure[...]

Page 15 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 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, Ra dio A., etc Bridge configuration option is available when airClient is configured in airClient Bridg[...]

Page 16 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Menu Item Menu Sub-items Description Access Filte rs Reset: Resets the dev ice remotely Delayed Reset: Schedules delayed reset at a futur e time NTP Server : Allow s user to cha nge NTP Server setting s Firmware Version: Show s firmware’s current versio n Radio F [...]

Page 17 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Menu Item Menu Sub-items Description Link Test Allows user to do a throughput test and ping test. These tools could be very helpful during the installation phase. Link B udget Planni ng Cal cula tor All ows us er t o ca lcul ate t he Lin k Budget. Antenna alignment [...]

Page 18 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 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 airClient in NAT, Router or Bridge mode. NAT : This is t he default operating mode. This[...]

Page 19 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2.5. airClient Bridge to airClient Router/NAT Follow the steps below to change airClient Bridge mode to airClient Router/NAT mod e 1. Go t o ‘Too ls | S yste m Conf igur at ion’ d rop d own menu. The ‘System Configuration’ will be displayed. 2. Click on the [...]

Page 20 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2.6. airClient Router/NAT to airClient Bridge Follow the steps below to change airClient Router/NAT mode to airClient Bridge Mode 1. Go to ‘Tools | System Co nfiguration’ drop down menu. The ‘System Con figuration’ will be displayed. 2. Click on the ‘Curre[...]

Page 21 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2.7. airClient Bridge Configuration The airClient in Bridge mode can only associate with an airPoint™ (sB3210) in bridge mode. This Bridge mode uses WDS impl emen tat ion. The following sections outline the procedures for changing the settings for bridge mode. 2.7[...]

Page 22 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 3. Choose a radio regulatory domain and channel fro m the drop down lists. 4. Select the transmit power of the radio from the Dial- in-Power drop down menu and select the appropriate gain of th e antenna 5. Enter the RF cable loss based on the cable specifications. [...]

Page 23 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 2-11 Link S tatus 2.7.3. Bridge Configuration In Bridge mode the airClien t unit acts as a transparent bridge between the Radio and the Ethernet interfaces. The figure below shows the bridge configuration and the tab le of bridge forwarding information. The S[...]

Page 24 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 2-12 Bridge Configuration Info rmation 2.7.4. Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) STP is a L ayer 2 link management protocol that provides path redundancy while preventing loop s in the network. For a Layer 2 Ethernet network to fun ction properly, only [...]

Page 25 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 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 Value s Setting Default Value Range Purp ose Bridge priority 32768 0-65535 A parameter used to identify the ro[...]

Page 26 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Setting Default Value Range Purp ose for forwarding traffic out of the spanning tree. A high er nu meri cal v alu e mea ns a lower priority; thus, the highest priority is 8. Radio port (Radio A) path cost 100 0-65535 The cost of using the port to reach the root brid[...]

Page 27 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 10. Enter the values of Ethernet Port Priority and/or Port Path Co st for ETHA. 11. Enter the values of Ethernet Port Priority and/or Port Path Co st for ETHB. 12. Enter the values of Ethernet Port Priority and/or Port Path Cost for Radio A 13. Click on ’Apply Cha[...]

Page 28 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 1. From the ’Summa ry Information’ page, click on the ’Ethernet Configuration’ link to change Ethernet parameters. 2. E nter t he ‘ IP addr ess ’ and ‘ IP mask ’. 3. Click on ‘App ly Changes’ to effec t the changes. Figure 2-14 airClient Router E[...]

Page 29 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 2-15 airClient Router Wireless IP Configura tion In order for the airClient Router device to associate w ith the access point, the user needs to config ure the acces s point ’s S SID an d WEP ( if used ). Follow these steps below to configure the airClient [...]

Page 30 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 2-16 airClient Route r Wireless Associat ion Settings Click on ‘ Status ’ to view the association lin k-status graph. Figure 2-17 Link S tatus Note : If the association status window does not appear, click on the Java link to download the JRE.[...]

Page 31 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2.8.3. DHCP Configurations The airClient Router/NAT unit can be used as a DHCP server or DHCP relay agent. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) allows a host to be au tomatically assigned a new IP address out of a po ol of IP addresses for his network. A DHCP [...]

Page 32 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 1. Click on ‘Networking’ | ‘DHCP Server’ from th e menu bar to access the DHCP configuration page. 2. Click on ‘Disable DHCP and DHCP Relay’ to disable the DHCP server configuration. 3. Click on the ’Apply Changes’ to change the settings. Figure 2-19[...]

Page 33 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 2-20 DHCP Relay Agent Configurations 2.8.5. Routing Table The airClient Router web-interfa ce provides viewing of the routes and allows for adding and deleting of the static routes for the airClient Router mode only. To view the route entry in the airClient R[...]

Page 34 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2. Enter the Netw ork IP, Mask, Gatew ay, Interface and Metric entry f or the new route. 3. Cli ck o n ‘A pply C hange s’ t o add the n ew s tat ic rout e. Follow the steps below to delete a static route e ntry in the airClient Router device. 1. Click on ‘Netw[...]

Page 35 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 2.9. Wireless Settings Management The Radio Configuration Main page can be accessed from the Radio me nu. The contents w ill be slightly different for each mode, Bridge, Router o r NAT. 2.9.1. Wireless Se ttings The following table summarizes the information for the[...]

Page 36 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Page Items Descriptions Channel This is the current radio channel in the selected domain. This is settable when in a irClient Bridge mode, u ser need to enter the same channe l as the Root device from the pu ll-down list. The radio channel settings correspond to the[...]

Page 37 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Page Items Descriptions 128 bits: User has to inpu t 26 HEX digits. Note: When key size is changed, all 4 keys are lost and user needs to re-enter. Valid Key Choose which key in key table is used for authentication: 1 – 4 This value must be matching between the ai[...]

Page 38 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Follo w the s teps bel ow to di sable the Data Encr yption: 1. Click the ‘ Data Encryption ’ link fro m the ‘Radio Main’ page. 2. If it is in Shared key mode, p lease se t to Open System before you can click Disable 3. Click the ‘Disable’ button on the W[...]

Page 39 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 3. Pe rfor mance Parameters and Bandwid th Controller This chapter gives instructions for editing the wire less r adio pro toc ol p aram eters t o opti miz e radi o performance and changing the Bandwidth Co ntroller. These procedures are the same for a ll the three [...]

Page 40 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Page Item Descriptions The pull-down menu allows the user to select a long, short or dynamic radio preamble. The default is dynamic. Long: a long prea mbl e ens ures comp atibi lit y wit h mos t cli ent s. Short: a short prea mble improves throughput performance. Bu[...]

Page 41 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 3.2. Bandw idth Controller Using the Bandwidth Controller on the airClient, th e user can limit the wireless link bandwidth for the the upload/fownload speed. The default is disa ble with default upload speed of 512kbps and download speed of 6Mbps. This is subject t[...]

Page 42 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 4. Site Survey T ool To ac cess the S ite S urvey page, go t o the ‘T ools ’ | ‘ Site Surv ey ’ drop down menu. The following figure shows the list of SSID from the site survey. Figure 4-1 Site Survey showing associated devices To associate to a particular S[...]

Page 43 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 5. Antenna Alignment Ante nna ali gnm ent c an be use d to opt imi ze the radio perfo rman ce and chec k the RS SI and Noi se Fl oor. To acces s the a ntenn a align m ent, go to th e menu ba r under Tools and choose ‘ Antenna Alignment ’. In order to view this i[...]

Page 44 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Note : A jump in the audio frequency from low to high indicates that the RSSI is increasing and vice versa.[...]

Page 45 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 6. T raffic S t atistics Wireless and Ethernet Traffic Statistics can be displayed by clicking on the ‘ Networking ’ | ‘ Statistics ’ drop down menu. The following figure shows the statistics page. This page is refre shed after every 10 second s. Figu re 6-1[...]

Page 46 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Ethe rnet Tra ffi c Stat isti cs Transmitted error No of packets discarded because of format error Received Bytes Total No of packe ts received through the particula r interfac e Received Unicast packets Tot al No of pack ets rec eiv ed wit h a spec ifie d dest inat[...]

Page 47 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Wireless Traffic Statistics Received Frame FCS Error Count No of un successfully re ceived fra mes ACK Receives Failure Count No of frame transmissions fo r which an acknowledgement response frame was expected but not received. RTS Fail No of transmitted RTS frames [...]

Page 48 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 7. T ools 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. 7.1. System Configuration The S yste m Conf igura tio n pag e prov ide s a one pa[...]

Page 49 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e The following page summarizes the page contents of the System Con figuration page. Table 7-1 System Configuration Page Items 7.1. 1. S NMP Sec urity The user can edit the SNMP Community String and SN MP Access filters. The SN MP community needs to match with the SNM[...]

Page 50 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Follow th e steps b elow to change the SN MP security setting s. 1. Enter New Community and Confirm Community with the same string . 2. Check the ‘SNMP Access Filte rs’ Enable bo x. 3. Enter Access Filters IP Address and Mask. Up to three IP’s settings can be [...]

Page 51 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e (there is one already specified by default) and the time zone. After enabling the delayed reset, specify a time wh ich is valid in referen ce to current time. When recurren c e is set to weekly, mon thly or daily, the reference is mad e with the first set time i.e. [...]

Page 52 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Note : Please ensure that the NTP server IP is accessible from the de vice. Use the ping test tool from the ’Tools | Link Test’ to check if the NTP server can be pinged from the device. The de vice can still opera te without the Time Server con figurati on but y[...]

Page 53 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 7-5 Profile Manager Table 7-3 Description of Commands 7.2. 1. S ave Pro fil e Follow the steps below to save the curre nt configuration to a profile: 1. Select a profile name from ‘Save As’. 2. Enter a description of the profile. Page Item Descriptions Sa[...]

Page 54 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 3. Cli ck t he ‘Save P rofil e’ but ton t o eff ect th e chang es. Note : Existing configuration parameters in the selected profile n ame will be replaced with current configuration parameters. 7.2.2. Load Operating Profile To load the desired operating profile,[...]

Page 55 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 7-6 Sche duling a Profile[...]

Page 56 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 7.3. Link Test The Link Test utility is available from the na vigation menu bar in the ‘Tools | Link Test’ dro p down menu. From the Link Test tools, the user can test Throughput and perform Ping Test. You can run Radio Transmit or Radio Receive. The remote devi[...]

Page 57 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 3. The Throughpu t test will start a nd the result will be displayed . 4. Click on the ‘Stop’ b utton if you want to stop the test. Note : The Throughput Test can be done only between Nexus units. Figure 7-8 Throughput Te st Result 7.4. Link Budget Planning Link[...]

Page 58 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 7-9 Link Budget Planning Ca lculator GPS Calculator Once the distance is computed follow the steps below for the link budget calculations: 1. S elect the r adi o mode for stat ion 1 and 2 . 2. E nter t he t rans mit outp ut po wer i n dBm for s tat ion 1 an d[...]

Page 59 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 7-10 Link Budget Planning Calculator Link Budget[...]

Page 60 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 8. Firmware Upgrade The latest firmware for airClient Nexus is available f or download from th e smartBridges Support w ebsite at http://www.smartbridges.com/support/acn.asp The airClient Nexus unit firmwa re can be upgraded from the web management interfa ce. Follo[...]

Page 61 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Figure 8-2 airClient Nexus Firmware Upgrade (Firmware transferred) Figure 8-3 Successful upgrade pop-up w indow[...]

Page 62 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Appendix A – SNMP T rap airClient Nexus generates SNMP trap that can be forwarded to the SNMP Tr ap server. The SNMP Trap server IP a ddress is set in se ction. The following table provides a list of SN MP traps generated. Trap Messa ge IP addr ess Objec t Id enti[...]

Page 63 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Appendix B – Use ful te rms and definitions Acronyms and Abbrev iations MAC Media Access Control RSSI Receive Signal Sensitivity Indication SSID Service Set Identifie r DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ACL Access Control List SNMP Simple Network Management[...]

Page 64 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e 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 w ired local area network medium and that does not employ cryptographic techniques to enhanc[...]

Page 65 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e DHCP stands for ‘Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol’ and is a means for networked computers to ge t their TCP/IP networkin g settings f rom a central serv er. Importantly, DHCP assigns IP addresses and other TCP/IP configuration parameters automatically. SNMP S[...]

Page 66 of 66 intellig ent wire less pla tform air Cli ent ™ Nex us Use r G uid e Appendix C – License airClient Nexus is Copyright © 2004-2005 by smartBridges. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binar y forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the follow ing conditions are met: 1. Redistributions[...]