User's Manual

Exalt Installation and Management Guide
ExtendAir G2 24GHz Digital Microwave Radios
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2015-09-09
Figure 24 In-Band and Out-of-Band Management
• Port-to-Port: Management traffic remains separate from data traffic without requiring out-of-band
management or VLAN configuration. This allows any Ethernet port on the link to be logically
mapped to the same port at the other end of the link without requiring VLANs to be configured.
The traffic passing through these mapped ports is not accessible from any of the other available
Ethernet ports on either side of the link.
• The Flow Control setting allows the enabling of 802.3 Ethernet flow control. This feature is
selectable on all Ethernet interface ports individually, and enables flow control signaling from the
radio to the connected network device. ‘Pause’ packets are issued when incoming traffic capacity
is greater than current capacity. This feature is only operational when used in conjunction with
Rate Limiting and/or QoS.
• The Alarm function can be enabled or disabled for each port. Generally, all constantly connected
port alarms should be enabled, and unused or maintenance-only ports should have alarms disabled.
• The Mute setting allows signaling to connected network devices when the radio link is down such
as for spanning tree protocol.
• When enabled, the DHCP feature provides a basic DHCP function to ease interfacing with a
computer. DHCP is enabled by default. If the Ethernet port on the computer is set for DHCP
addressing, on radio bootup (for up to 10 minutes) or when an Ethernet link is sensed for a
management port, the radio provides an IP address to the computer that is two digits higher than
the radio’s IP address (for example, if the radio’s IP address is 10.0.0.1, the computer’s IP address
will be 10.0.0.3). The radio also senses any DHCP server on the network and if detected, mutes its
own internal DHCP function.