User's Manual Part 1

Configuration MeshMAX 5054 Series User Guide
Configuring the Subscriber Module
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NOTE: Units sold only in the United States are pre-configured to scan and display only the outdoor frequencies
permitted by the FCC. No other Country selections, channels, or frequencies can be configured. Units sold
outside of the United States support the selection of a Country by the professional installer. If you change the
Country, a reboot of the unit is necessary for the upgrade to take place.
For a non US-only device, the default country selected is United Kingdom (GB).
Note the following:
– The channel center frequencies are not regulated; only the band edge frequencies are regulated.
– If, before upgrade, US was selected as a country for a non US-Only device (which is an incorrect configuration),
the country is changed automatically to United Kingdom upon upgrade.
See Country Codes for Subscriber Module for a list of country codes.
• Location: This field can be used to describe the location of the unit, for example “Main Lobby.”
• Contact Name, Contact Email, and Contact Phone: In these fields, you can enter the details of the person to
contact.
• ObjectID: This read-only field shows the OID of the product name in the MIB.
• Ethernet MAC Address: This read-only field shows the MAC address of the Ethernet interface of the device.
• Descriptor: This read-only field shows the product name and firmware build version.
• Up Time: This read-only field shows the length of time the device has been up and running since the last reboot.
• Mode of Operation: This drop-down menu is used to set the unit as a bridge (layer 2) or as a router (layer 3). See
Bridge and Routing Modes for more information.
Bridge and Routing Modes
Bridge Mode
A bridge is a product that connects a local area network (LAN) to another LAN that uses the same protocol (for example,
Ethernet). You can envision a bridge as being a device that decides whether a message from you to someone else is
going to the local area network in your building or to someone on the local area network in the building across the street.
A bridge examines each message on a LAN, passing those known to be within the same LAN, and forwarding those
known to be on the other interconnected LAN (or LANs).
In bridging networks, computer or node addresses have no specific relationship to location. For this reason, messages
are sent out to every address on the network and are accepted only by the intended destination node. Bridges learn
which addresses are on which network and develop a learning table so that subsequent messages can be forwarded to
the correct network.
Bridging networks are generally always interconnected LANs since broadcasting every message to all possible
destination would flood a larger network with unnecessary traffic. For this reason, router networks such as the Internet
use a scheme that assigns addresses to nodes so that a message or packet can be forwarded only in one general
direction rather than forwarded in all directions.
A bridge works at the data-link (physical) layer of a network, copying a data packet from one network to the next network
along the communications path.
The default Bridging Mode is Transparent Bridging.
This mode works if you do not use source routing in your network. If your network is configured to use source routing,
then you should use either Multi-Ring SRTB or Single-Ring SRTB mode.
In Multi-Ring SRTB mode, each unit must be configured with the Bridge number, Radio Ring number, and Token Ring
number. The Radio Ring number is unique for each Token Ring Access Point and the Bridge number is unique for each
Token Ring Access Point on the same Token Ring segment.
Alternatively, you may use the Single-Ring SRTB mode. In this mode, only the Token Ring number is required for
configuration.