User guide

March 2005 Building Your Canopy Network
Through Software Release 6.1
Page 202 of 425 Issue 1
Canopy System User Guide
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NOTE:
VIDs that you enter for the Management VID and VLAN Membership
parameters do not time out.
Management VID
Enter the VID that the operator wishes to use to communicate with the module manager.
The range of values is 1 to 4095. The default value is 1.
VLAN Membership
Enter the set of allowed VIDs for the AP. The range of values is 1 to 4095. The default
value is 1.
Permission
Select Read Only if you wish to disallow any parameter changes by the NMS.
Update Application Address
For capabilities in future software releases, you can enter the address of the server to
access for software updates on this AP and registered SMs.
Transmit Frame Spreading
If you select Enable, then SMs between two APs can register in the assigned AP (do not
register in another AP). Where all SMs operate on Release 4.0 or later
◦ and multiple AP clusters operate in the same frequency band range and same
geographical area, select Enable.
◦ and multiple AP clusters do not operate in the same frequency band range and
same geographical area, select Disable, but observe the following caveat.
IMPORTANT!
SM throughput is 10% greater with this feature disabled. However, if you
disable Transmit Frame Spreading where this feature was previously
enabled, monitor the zone for interference over a period of days to
ensure that this action has not made SMs sensitive to the wrong
beacons.
With this selection enabled, the AP does not transmit a beacon in each frame, but rather
transmits a beacon in only pseudo-random frames in which the SM expects the beacon.
This allows multiple APs to send beacons to multiple SMs in the same range without
interference.
Site Name
Specify a string to associate with the physical module. This parameter is written into the
sysName SNMP MIB-II object and can be polled by an NMS. The buffer size for this field
is 128 characters.