User Manual

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WhereLAN III User’s Guide
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User’s Guide, WhereLAN III draft D1675 rev F
© Copyright Zebra Technologies, 2012
Zebra Confidential
The WhereLAN-III MAC address is not directly compatible for replacing a
WhereLAN-II at an existing site that is running a version of VSS prior to
4.0.5.2, and WhereWAND’s that are running software that is from VSS prior
to 4.0.5.2.
Location Sensors use 4 unique embedded tags id’s, for Timing and Health.
These 4 unique embedded tag Id’s correspond to the Rf Transmit and TIC
ports (1, 2, and 3). The upper 32 bits of these four tag-ID’s MATCH bits 31
down to 2 of the unit’s MAC address. For this reason MAC addresses of
Location Sensor with, WhereLAN-II or WhereLAN-III, skip in a modulus of
4.
• For Example: In a WhereLAN-2 a MAC address might look like
0004F1AAA120, then the next MAC address of a WhereLAN-2,
in sequence, would be 0004F1AAA124.
• So this means for a WhereLAN-2 that there MAC address will
always end in either a 0, 4, 8, or C.
• For the above Example: Embedded tags for 0004F1AAA120:
Rf Port: F1AAA120
Tic1: F1AAA121
Tic2; F1AAA122
TIic3:F1AAA123
• The WhereLAN-III MAC addresses now ends in either 2, 6, A, and E.
5.3.5 WhereLAN-III MAC Legacy Compatibility