Operations and Maintenance Manual

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Multi-Protocol Reader 2.4 Maintenance Instructions

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Figure 5-15: Three readers covering one direction of wide lane ORT traffic

4. Navigate to the Inter-Reader panel on the Lane Assignment page. The Inter-Reader alias and Ethernet 2

IP address have already been configured as discussed in the previous sections.

5. If there is a low-channel neighbor, toggle the Left Reader switch. For the example this must be done on

both Reader 2 and 3, as these both have a low-channel neighbor.

6. Enter the Left Inter-Reader alias IP address (check the lane assignment page of the neighbor to see its

configured alias, overwriting the default 0.0.0.0

7. If there is a high-channel neighbor, toggle the Right Reader switch. For the example this must be done on

both Reader 1 and Reader 2 as these both have a high-channel neighbor.

8. Enter the Right Inter-Reader alias IP address.

Note: For a MPR 2.4, a reader restart or reboot is not reqiured after changing the Inter-Reader settings.

9. To set the Reader to switchover when an IR link is down, See configuring events that cause a switchover

procedure on page 208.

To ensure correct operation it is also necessary to:

Configure Protocols Tag Programming (see Programming on page 61) ensuring that:

• TMP and TCP are enabled

• The Plaza IDs of all Readers at the plaza match

• The Reader ID for each Reader is different. Note to change the reader ID you must enable TDM write

and Traffic Management Mode