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‘adder’ flashes unevenly until the pushbutton on the ‘adder’ is
pressed again or the ‘joiner’ is reset by holding the pushbuttons
down for more than 10 seconds.
A
PLC
B
PLC
C
PLC
A and B are not part of AVLN
A and B want to form an AVLN
Press NMK button on A less than 3 sec.
Press NMK button on B less than 3 sec.
A becomes “joiner”
B becomes “joiner”
B determines that A MAC address < B MAC address
B becomes “adder”
A accepts NMK from B
A
PLC
A
PLC
B
PLC
B
PLC
C
PLC
A and B are not part of AVLN
A and B want to form an AVLN
Press NMK button on A less than 3 sec.
Press NMK button on B less than 3 sec.
A becomes “joiner”
B becomes “joiner”
B determines that A MAC address < B MAC address
B becomes “adder”
A accepts NMK from B
Figure 12 Forming a HomePlug AV logical network
6.2 Joining a Network
In this scenario, a network exists, and a new device, the ‘joiner’,
wants to join the network. Any device on the existing network can
serve as the ‘adder’.
(1) Press the pushbutton on the ‘joiner’ for at least 3 seconds.
(2) Press the pushbutton on any network device for less than
3 seconds, making it the ‘adder’. Please press this
pushbutton within 1 minute.