Installation Instructions
Table Of Contents
- nanoBTS Installation and Test Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Overview
- 3 Customer safety and regulatory information (CENG0133)
- 4 BTS Hardware Installation (CENG0210)
- 5 PSU Installation Guide (CENG0033)
- 6 BTS Installer User Guide (CENG0048)
- Introduction
- 6.2 Capabilities
- 6.3 Concepts
- 6.4 Getting Started
- 6.5 User Interface Reference
- 6.6 The DHCP Server
- 6.7 BTS Attribute Reference
- 6.7.1 The BTS Configuration Dialog box
- 6.7.2 Current Values Display
- 6.7.3 Identifying a nanoBTS
- 6.7.4 How Defaults Work
- 6.7.5 Enabling Configuration Phases
- 6.7.6 The BTS tab
- 6.7.7 The DHCP tab
- 6.7.8 The Unit ID tab
- 6.7.9 The NV Attr (1) tab
- 6.7.10 The NV Attr (2) tab
- 6.7.11 The NV Attr (3) tab
- 6.7.12 The NV Attr (4) tab
- 6.7.13 The Download tab
- 6.8 Using Network Listen
- 6.9 Using BTS Installer via a proxy
- 6.10 Connecting to a nanoBTS via SSL
- 6.11 Configuration File Reference
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6.7.7 The DHCP tab
The DHCP tab, Figure 48, contains attributes to control the operation of the DHCP
server with respect to this nanoBTS. In addition, if the DHCP configuration phase is
enabled, the MAC address from the BTS tab is used by the DHCP server and the IP
address from the BTS tab may be used by the DHCP server.
Figure 48 - DHCP tab
Attribute Description
Enable DHCP Configuration Enables or disables the DHCP configuration phase;
when disabled the DHCP tab is white and the remaining
attribute controls on this tab are disabled.
IP Lease Time How long the IP address given to the nanoBTS by the
DHCP server is valid. See discussion below.
Subnet Mask The subnet mask that the nanoBTS uses as part of its
IP configuration. This may be left at zero if it can be
deduced from the class of the IP address. Details of the
design of IP networks are outside the scope of this User
Guide.
Router The router, or default gateway, that the nanoBTS uses
as part of its IP configuration. Details of the design of IP
networks are outside the scope of this user guide.
The IP Lease Time specifies how long the IP configuration supplied to the nanoBTS by
BTS Installer’s DHCP server is to be valid. Before this period expires the nanoBTS will
contact the DHCP server asking for the lease to be renewed; if the DHCP server
doesn’t reply, perhaps because BTS Installer isn’t running any more, then when the
period expires the nanoBTS will regard its IP configuration as invalid, will restart, and
will try again to find a DHCP server willing to give it a valid IP configuration.
Whilst BTS Installer can be used as a permanently running (24/7) DHCP server to
serve IP configurations to a network of nanoBTSs it is not designed or intended to be
used in this way.
This means that it is only sensible to set a finite lease time in particular circumstances,
for example: