User's Manual

www.netcommwireless.com
Vodafone MachineLink 3G
65
Configuring Periodic PING settings
The Periodic PING settings configure the router to transmit controlled ping packets to 2 specified IP addresses. If the router does
not receive responses to the pings, the router will reboot.
This works as follows:
1. After every Periodic Ping Timer configured interval, the router sends 3 consecutive pings to the First destination address.
2. If all 3 pings fail, the router sends 3 consecutive pings to the Second destination address.
3. The router then sends 3 consecutive pings to the First destination address and 3 consecutive pings to the Second
destination address every Periodic PING accelerated timer configured interval.
4. If all accelerated pings in step 3 above fail, the number of times configured in Fail count, the router reboots.
5. If any ping succeeds the router returns to step 1 and does not reboot.
Disabling the Periodic Ping reset function
To disable the Periodic Ping reset function, set Fail Count to 0.
Note: The traffic generated by the periodic ping feature is usually counted as chargeable data usage. Please keep this in
mind when selecting how often to ping.
Configuring a Periodic reboot
The router can be configured to automatically reboot after a period of time specified in minutes. While this is not necessary, it does
ensure that in the case of remote installations, the router will reboot if some anomaly occurs.
1. In the Force reboot every field, enter the time in minutes between forced reboots. The default value is 0 which disables the
Periodic reboot function. The minimum period between reboots is 5 minutes while the maximum value is 65535 minutes.
2. If you have configured a forced reboot time, you can use the Randomise reboot time drop down list to select a random
reboot timer. Randomising the reboot time is useful for preventing a large number of devices from rebooting simultaneously
and flooding the network with connection attempts. The router will wait for the configured
Force reboot every time and then
randomly reboot within the configured
Randomise reboot time.
3. Click the Save button to save the settings.