Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- PMP 450i and PTP 450i Configuration and User Guide
- Safety and regulatory information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About This Configuration and User Guide
- Chapter 1: Reference information
- Chapter 2: Configuration
- Preparing for configuration
- Task 1: Connecting to the unit
- Task 2: Configuring IP and Ethernet interfaces
- Configuring the AP IP interface
- NAT, DHCP Server, DHCP Client and DMZ in SM
- Configuring the SM IP interface with NAT disabled
- Configuring the SM IP interface with NAT enabled
- NAT tab of the SM with NAT disabled
- NAT tab of the SM with NAT enabled
- Reconnecting to the management PC
- VLAN Remarking and Priority bits configuration
- VLAN tab of the AP
- VLAN tab of the SM
- VLAN Membership tab of the SM
- PPPoE tab of the SM
- NAT Port Mapping tab of the SM
- Task 3: Upgrading the software version and using CNUT
- Task 4: Configuring General and Unit settings
- Task 5: Configuring security
- Isolating APs from the internet
- Encrypting radio transmissions
- Managing module access by passwords
- Requiring SM Authentication
- Filtering protocols and ports
- Encrypting downlink broadcasts
- Isolating SMs
- Filtering management through Ethernet
- Allowing management only from specified IP addresses
- Configuring management IP by DHCP
- Restricting radio Telnet access over the RF interface
- Security tab of the AP
- Filtering protocols and ports
- Protocol Filtering tab of the AP
- Port configuration tab of the AP
- Security tab of the SM
- Protocol Filtering tab of the SM
- Port Configuration tab of the SM
- Task 6: Configuring radio parameters
- Task 7: Setting up SNMP agent
- Task 8: Configuring syslog
- Task 9: Configuring remote access
- Task 10: Monitoring the AP-SM Link
- Task 11: Configuring quality of service
- Maximum Information Rate (MIR) Parameters
- Token Bucket Algorithm
- MIR Data Entry Checking
- Committed Information Rate (CIR)
- Bandwidth from the SM Perspective
- Interaction of Burst Allocation and Sustained Data Rate Settings
- High-priority Bandwidth
- Traffic Scheduling
- Setting the Configuration Source
- Quality of Service (QoS) tab of the AP
- DiffServ tab of the AP
- Quality of Service (QoS) tab of the SM
- DiffServ tab of the SM
- Task 12: Performing an Sector Wide SA
- Task 13: Zero Touch Configuration Using DHCP Option 66
- Task 14: Configuring Radio via config file
- Task 15: Configuring a RADIUS server
- Understanding RADIUS for PMP 450i
- Choosing Authentication Mode and Configuring for Authentication Servers - AP
- SM Authentication Mode – Require RADIUS or Follow AP
- Handling Certificates
- Configuring your RADIUS servers for SM authentication
- Assigning SM management IP addressing via RADIUS
- Configuring your RADIUS server for SM configuration
- Using RADIUS for centralized AP and SM user name and password management
- RADIUS Device Data Accounting
- RADIUS Device Re-authentication
Task 6: Configuring radio parameters PMP 450i and PTP 450i Configuration and User
Guide
Attribute Meaning
Multicast VC
Data Rate
This pull down menu of the Multicast Data Control screen helps in
configuring multicast packets to be transmitted over a dedicated
channel at a configurable rate of 1X, 2X, 4X or 6X. The default value
is “Disable”. If set to the default value, all multicast packets are
transmitted over the Broadcast VC data path. This feature is
available only for the PMP 450i and is not backward compatible with
PMP 430 series of radios.
Multicast Repeat
Count
This value is the number of packets that are repeated for every
multicast VC packet received on the AP (located under Radio tab of
Configuration). Multicast (like Broadcast) packets go over a VC that
is shared by all SMs, so there is no guaranteed delivery. The repeat
count is an attempt to improve the odds of the packets getting over
the link. If the user has issues with packets getting dropped, they can
use this parameter to improve the performance at the cost of the
overall throughput possible on that channel. The default value is
0
.
Multicast
Downlink CIR
This value is the committed information rate for the multicast
downlink VC (located under the Radio tab of Configuration). The
default value is
0
kbps. The range of this parameter is based on the
number of repeat counts. The higher the repeat count, the lower the
range for the multicast downlink CIR.
Control
Messages
Controls whether the control messages are sent in MIMO-B or
MIMO-A mode. MIMO-A is recommended. However, if an AP on 13.2
is attempting to connect to an SM on 13.1.3 or before, changing to
MIMO-B may aid in getting the SM registered.
PMP 430 Interop
Mode
For n-1 compatibility, In SISO mode this forces the AP to only send
Control and Beacons over one of the RF paths.
Receive Quality
Debug
To aid in link performance monitoring, the AP and SM now report the
number of fragments received per modulation (i.e. QPSK, 16-QAM,
64-QAM) and per channel (polarization).
Due to CPU load, this will slightly degrade packet per second
processing.
Dedicated Multicast Virtual Circuit (VC)
Previously, multicast packets were transmitted over the Broadcast VC. This channel ran on
the lowest modulation. By creating a new Multicast VC, we can now configure multicast
packets to be transmitted over a dedicated channel at a configurable rate of 1X, 2X, 4X or
6X. This feature is available only for the PMP 450i and is not backward compatible with
PMP 430 series of radios.
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