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S TA T AT EM ME EN NT N T ATE This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................... 1 Features .................................................................................................................................................... 1 Glossary.................................................................................................................................................... 1 INSTALLATION ...........
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide 1 INTRODUCTION This chapter describes the features of your HomePNA3.1 over Coax MDU Master Bridge -- CC100. Refer to “HomePNA3.1 over Coax” as HCNA from this point. Features ♦ One HCNA port for driving HomePNA3.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide 2 INSTALLATION This chapter describes the installation procedure for your bridge. Packing List Your package should come with the equipment listed below, ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ One Main Unit (HCNA to Ethernet Master Bridge) CC100 One DC 5V Power Adaptor One F-Type Coaxial Cable (RG-59U) One RJ-45 Ethernet Cable (CAT-5) Rear Panel Figure 1: Rear Panel of CC100 Connectors 1. DC5V: Connect to the power adapter plug. 2.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Connecting the Cables To establish a new coax networking system through the CC100, reroute the CATV/Antenna signal source over coax toward the CC100 ‘TV/Antenna’ port and connect the CC100 ‘HCNA’ port to the original coax entrance to the building. The CC100 works as a Combiner for TV and HCNA signal. In each dwelling unit, use the HCNA EP to extract the TV signal and Ethernet packets.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide You can also use other Combiner’s or Mixer-Splitter’s with the CC100 to build the same system. See the following Figure 3 for different cabling. Figure 3: Different Cabling of CC100 NOTE: After powering up the CC100, the LED ‘SynMode’ will always be glowing and LED ‘Link/Act’ will light up if at least one EP is detected on the HCNA network. A dimmed LED ‘Link/Act’ shows if no EP is attached to the HCNA network. NOTE: The minimum attenuation between Master and EP is 12dB.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Installing the CC100 with an amplifier TV Signal Amplifiers may cause interference when used in conjunction with this product. This interference may occur with particular types of TV Signal Amplifiers when they are connected to the coaxial cable and are placed in between the Master (CC100) and any of the Slaves (CC101).
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide 3 CONFIGURATION This chapter describes the configuration procedure for your bridge. Configuration Methods To access and configure your bridge, choose one of the following methods: ♦ Use Web Browser ♦ Use Telnet Program ♦ Use SNMP Manager or MIB Browser Use Web Browser Web browser is the easiest tool to use to configure the bridge. The factory default IP address of CC100 is ‘192.168.1.1’ and the default subnet mask is ‘255.255.255.0’.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide System Setup (TCP/IP Properties) The main window contains the left sub-window for the items to be configured, and the right sub-window displays the contents for the selected item. Moving your mouse on the item in the left window will pop out the corresponding window. Clicking on the ‘Apply’ button (or ‘OK’ button in some screens) will submit your new settings into the bridge and will take effect immediately.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Figure 4: EP Management Architecture Firmware/Driver Files CC100 flash ROM is capable of storing the following files: 1. System boot code (OS boot loader) 2. System firmware (OS) 3. Local (Master) HCNA driver for chipset 3110 (resides at CC100) 4. EP (Slave) HCNA drivers for chipset 3010 (Please Note: NetComm do not supply an EP based on chipset 3010) 5. Smart EP (Slave) HCNA drivers for chipset 3110 (resides at Smart EP like CC101). 6.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Each row represents one EP. Here we have one Master (Local) HCNA device (on the top) and 4 extra Slave EP devices shown in the window. The first two are Smart EPs based on 3110, and the last two EPs that are powered off. Smart EP Denotes an EP whose Ethernet properties are configurable. Based on 3110 chipset, with built-in simple management function, its Ethernet settings can be configured by the CC100. Refer to “Master/EP Ethernet Properties”.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Clicking on the ‘Test’ button can diagnose the noise of HCNA itself and the physical connection quality between Master and EP. Properties Profile – Stored the Settings CC100 will query and store the setting values of individual on-line EP’s into its nonvolatile memory automatically, including HomePNA properties and Ethernet properties as a profile. It shows the monitored EP status: green light in the ‘Link’ field means the EP is ‘ON’, grey light indicates it is off.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Clicking the ‘Apply’ button will change the Master row background color to yellow (refer to ‘Profile Status’). Pick all allowable EP’s for automatic driver upgrade. You may change the selection and proceed to upgrade, in the below figure only one EP is selected for the performed upgrade.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide After the upgrade has been completed, press Refresh to update the EP management page. Here we have one banned EP shown with the red background after upgrade. Then power on the 2 extra off-line EPs. They will also be banned since their ‘Privacy Mode/Key’ (as default ‘OFF’/‘0x0’) doesn’t match with the Master’s (now key is ‘ON’/‘0x1234’ ). EP’s are classified by the shown background color, green for allowed EP, red for banned EP.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Master Privacy Mode On EP Off Privacy Mode 9 On Off (Key match) 8 (Key not match) 8 8 9(factory default) 9: EP can access the network 8: EP can’t access the network Upgrading the EP’s HCNA driver is the only way to change the EP’s ‘Privacy Mode’ and ‘Privacy Key’—by applying the setting values of the Master HCNA device to selected EP’s.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Master/Smart EP Ethernet Properties (Ether) The Ethernet properties of the Master device and Smart EP device are configurable. For those EPs equipped with the fixed Ethernet properties are remarked as un-configurable EPs – usually based on 3010 chipset. Port Setup To configure built-in Ethernet switch port properties, including speed, flow control, and maximum In/Out rate (bandwidth control) of ports LAN1/LAN2/HCNA.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide EP Upstream Bandwidth Control max. In Rate LAN1 HCNA max. Out Rate max. In Rate Master Bandwidth Control LAN1 LAN2 In EP Downstream Bandwidth Control max. Out Rate HCNA Out LAN2 LAN1 HCNA max. In Rate max. Out Rate LAN2 QoS Setup A total of 4 prioritized queues are provided for Ethernet packets, denoted as Queue0 (lowest priority), Queue1, Queue2 and Queue3 (highest priority).
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide IGMP v2 Snooping Setup Supports IGMP V2/V1 snooping only. Shut it if IGMP V3 is adopted in the network. Tag VLAN Setup Enable the 802.1Q Tag VLAN function and set up the values in the field ‘VID’ and ‘Priority’. VID range is 1~4095 and Priority is 0~7. Regard HCNA port as the network trunk. Once Tag VLAN is enabled, by default the LAN1 port and the HCNA port are set to the same VLAN; also the LAN2 port and the HCNA port are within the same VLAN.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide The following diagram denotes the path for tagged packets according to the above settings, Second example, enable Tag VLAN in EP only, and keep Master Tag VLAN disabled as default, as seen in the following packet path diagram.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Status and Statistics Show port LAN1/LAN2/HCNA Ethernet switch port link status and port statistics. Reset to Default Works for EP only, to reset all Ethernet settings/configurations of EP to factory default, including ‘Port Setup’, ‘QoS Setup’, ‘IGMP v2 Snooping Setup’, and ‘Tag VLAN Setup’. Delete the Obsolete EP Profile For the off-line EP’s only, the light in the Link field is grey; clicking on the ‘Del’ button will delete the EP profile.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Connect only one EP to Master, with 30dB attenuator add-on. Here’s the ‘Noise Test’ result of the connected EP, Physical Connection between Master and EP Connect only one EP to Master, with 30dB attenuator add-on.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide This diagnosis runs the downstream test from CC100 toward the EP. Also the result of ‘Rx Diagnose’ of the same gears, This diagnosis runs the upstream test from EP to CC100. The shown factors ‘SNR’, ‘Lost Pkts’, ‘PE’ and ‘RX Power’ are obtained during communication diagnosis between the tested EP device and Master device. SNR: Normally between 38dB~42dB. Lost Pkts: Denominator is the total number of transmitted packets in one test run.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Administrator For each account, 3 levels of privilege are provided: Superuser, Read, and ReadWrite. The unchangeable username ‘admin’ always has the ‘Superuser’ rights. To add a user account, you need to have the ‘Superuser’ privilege, Allowed Source Factory default filter set for the ‘IP address’ is ‘0.0.0.0’ and the ‘Subnet Mask’ is ‘0.0.0.0’ in ‘Allowed Source’ setting.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide ( Incoming Source IP Address & Subnet Mask ) = ( IP Address & Subnet Mask ) For the factory default setting, it will accept all incoming packets. For example, the following filter set permits all Hosts with IP address ‘192.168.1.xxx’ to access and configure the CC100, For each programmed filter set, you can further specify if the protocols Telnet/Http/SNMP/Ping are enabled or not.
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CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Specify that if the built-in Telnet server, Web server, and SNMP agent is enabled or not and assign the port number for the service. System Log By designating the Syslog server IP on the CC100, the CC100 will emit Unix-like Syslog events toward each server.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide System Time In order to provide correct timestamp for Syslog event, the CC100 supports SNTP protocol and you may assign the suitable SNTP servers to the CC100. For example, To access your listed SNTP server by its domain name instead of IP address, the ‘DNS Server’ and ‘Default Gateway’ in the ‘System Setup’ window needs to be set up correctly in order for the CC100 to access the SNTP server by its domain name.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide We bind MAC address 00-60-64-12-34-56 to port LAN1 and MAC address 00-60-64-78-90-00 to port LAN2, Reboot System Reboot Master CC100 only and leave the EP untainted. Default Setting Restore all settings of the CC100 to factory default, including username/password, IP address, privacy mode/key, etc. Press the ‘Reset’ button locally for about 5 seconds and the CC100 will reboot.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Open the ‘EP Management’ window, click on the ‘Refresh’ button first to scan all connected EPs, In the example, the onboard Master (denoted ‘Local’) device driver version is ’2.7.5-3’. The two 3110 EP’s device driver version is ‘2.7.5-3’, New System Firmware and HCNA Driver Files In this example, preparing the following binary files to upgrade the CC100 and the seven connected EPs, ♦ CC100_Sysfw_V3.35.bin Æ CC100 system firmware version ‘3.35’ ♦ CC100_Driver_V2.7.8-4.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide A count-down counter for entering the uploading mode, Click the ‘Continue’ button to proceed, 28
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Click the ‘Browse’ button to locate the new system firmware at your PC, then click the ‘Start’ button to upload the file (CC100_Sysfw_V3.35.bin) onto your CC100.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Another count-down counter to verify the integrity of the uploaded file, Verifying is ok, click the ‘Continue’ button.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide You may activate the new system firmware right away, or wait for the proper scheduled time in order not to disturb current operation. Check the New System Firmware in ‘Upload Area’ After the successful uploading, you may check the uploaded ‘System Firmware’ does exist in ‘Upload Area’. By opening the ‘System Firmware’ window in the ‘Activate Firmware’ function item, here shows the new system firmware version ’3.35’.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide If you don’t upload ‘System Firmware’ first, the ‘Upload Area’ is blank, Activate the New System Firmware Clicking the ‘Activate’ button in the ‘System Firmware’ window will do the real upgrade and replace the old ‘System Firmware’ (OS), 32
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide A progress counter for upgrade of the CC100 system firmware, CC100 will reboot after upgrade has completed, New system firmware version ’3.35’ shown on the ‘Information’ window, HCNA Driver Upload the New Master/EP HCNA Driver Follow the similar procedures as to upload new system firmware, start from the ‘Upload Firmware’ window… Click the ‘Start’ button to upload the file (CC100_Driver_V2.7.5-4.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Follow the similar steps to upgrade the system firmware. New HCNA driver version ’2.7.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Also shown on ‘EP Management’ window (‘Upload Area’), Upgrade the New HCNA Driver Designate the targeted Master/EPs for driver upgrade from version ‘2.7.5-3’ to ‘2.7.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Then ‘Upgrade’ button again to confirm, Upgrade EP’s one by one, keep the Master (Local) for the last, Master/EP runs the New HCNA Driver The ‘EP Management’ window that queries the properties from each HCNA device, 36
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Indicate the new driver version ‘2.7.5-4’ is working. System Firmware and HCNA Driver Version after Upgrade As shown on the ‘Information’ window for summary.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Use Telnet Any popular Telnet client could use it to configure the bridge remotely. For example, run Windows built-in Telnet to configure the bridge, Inputting any command with ‘-h’ argument will show you the usage, as ‘dconfig –h’ will explain the function and usage of command ‘dconfig’. For security consideration, please disable the ‘Telnet Server’ if the bridge is not to be configured via Telnet.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide Note that Telnet connection will be terminated automatically if the telnet client doesn’t input any command for 5 minutes; i.e. the console idle timer is 10 minutes (600 Sec). Command Sets for Telnet Console The following table lists all commands for Telnet console. The third column ‘Description’ explains what happens when you run the ‘Commands’ in the first column and also explains the versatile options of the second column ‘Arguments’.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide dconfig Dump all configurations/settings. default Reset all settings to factory default, except Password. diag -t -r dir [-s ] dns exit [-c ] [-n ] [-u ] Close the Telnet console. Set up the EP Properties Profile related setting values.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide [-n ] [-p ] ] -t: telnet -w: http/web -n: snmp -p: reply to ICMP ping 41
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Display all commands with brief description help hpnareboot ipconfig logserver master passwd ping reboot rmep service showep Reset Master HCNA device’ [-a Display or set up system IP network, include IP address , -m subnet mask , and default gateway .
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CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide [-s [-c ] [-p ] snmptrapserver [-a ] [-m ] ] [-l ] [-u ] [-s ] snmptrapsetup [-d ] sntp stat swconfig swigmp swqos swqosrate swqostc swsmac Display or set up SNMP trap server(s) configuration.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide swtagvlan tftp time upep [-c ] addresses can be setup, refer Static MAC : max 8 entries : bind the current MAC entry to LAN1 or LAN2 port, i.e. enable this MAC entry as static MAC :disable this MAC entry, neither bind to LAN1 nor LAN2 : remove the current MAC entry, invalid this MAC entry to default 00-00-00-00-00-00 [-c ] Display or set up the LAN1/LAN2/HCNA Tag VLAN.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide Use SNMP The SNMP Agent resides in CC100 and will handle requests from a remote SNMP Manager. The CC100 SNMP agent supports standard SNMP community-based operations (SNMP V1/V2c) as ‘SET’, ‘GET’ and ‘TRAP’. You need to specify the correct Read-Only Community Name into bridge before any SNMP ‘GET’ operation can be performed. Also set up the Read/Write Community Name for SNMP ‘SET’ operation. ‘SET’ operation can modify the setting within the CC100.
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CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide 4 ADVANCED FEATURES This chapter describes the advanced features offered by your bridge. QoS Quality of Service is enforced by assigning each incoming packet with a predefined priority value. Packets with higher priority should be processed as soon as possible (fast in, fast out). In shortage of buffers, some low priority packets should be discarded to smooth the high priority traffic flow.
CC100 Master Bridge User’s Guide A SPECIFICATIONS NETWORK INTERFACE ¾ HomePNA3.1 over Coax(HCNA) Compliant ¾ IEEE 802.3u 100Mbps Fast Ethernet ¾ IEEE 802.3 10Mbps Ethernet ¾ IEEE 802.
CC100Master Bridge User’s Guide TRANMISSION SPEED AND RANGE ¾ Up to 144Mbps ¾ Min Attenuation to Endpoint: 12dB ¾ Max Attenuation to Endpoint: 50dB (-176dBm/Hz Noise Floor) CONNECTORS ¾ Ethernet LAN Port: 2 Ports, RJ45 Jack ¾ HCNA Port: 1 F-Type Port to HCNA Coax Network ¾ TV/Antenna Port: 1 F-Type Port to TV Set or from CATV/Antenna LED INDICATOR ¾ Power ¾ Ethernet LAN Link/Activity per Port ¾ HCNA Link/Activity ¾ HCNA SyncMode ¾ HCNA Endpoint Diagnosis TERMINAL DEVICES(ENDPOINT)
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