User's Manual

RLX2 Series ♦ 802.11a, b, g, n RLX2 Quick Setup
Industrial Hotspots User Manual
2 RLX2 Quick Setup
In This Chapter
 Setup Master Radio ............................................................................... 20
 Setup Repeater Radio ........................................................................... 26
 Setup Client Radio ................................................................................ 28
This section describes how to setup RLX2 radios in a minimal configuration
before deploying them in the permanent installation. It will help verify the radios
are operational along with getting familiar with basic configuration procedures.
Note that the procedures described in this section assume the radios are in their
default configurations as shipped by ProSoft. If that is not the case, reset the
radios to factory defaults as described in section 6.7 before attempting these
procedures.
In any given network, there must be one radio acting as a Master, and the other
radios will be configured as Repeaters or Clients. Generally there is only one
Master radio per network.
Note: The RLX2 radios support the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) which allows
configuration of multiple Master radios on a single network in “hot standby” mode for redundancy.
RSTP is described further in section 6.2.3
Because most wireless networks consist of one Master radio and multiple
Repeaters, all RLX2 radios are shipped from ProSoft pre-configured as
Repeaters. Hence our first task is to configure one radio as the network Master.
IMPORTANT: If a ProSoft Power adapter RL-PS007-2 (supplied with the RLX-IHBTK Bench Test
Kit) is not present, see section 8.5.1 for instructions on wiring the power connector.
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