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WhereLAN III User’s Guide

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User’s Guide, WhereLAN III draft D1675 rev F

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WhereLAN-III MAC addresses now ends in either 2, 6, A, and E. This new

MAC scheme allows more efficient use of the MAC space defined for this

product and easy recognition by users and the system in identify a unit as a

WhereLan-III or II by just looking at its MAC.

• However the embedded tags still follow the format of the WhereLAN-

II, meaning they MATCH bits 31 down to 2 of the unit’s MAC address

in order of RF Tag thru wired time ports.

• Older versions of the WhereWand FW assume that the lower 32-bits

MATCH between the MAC and the RF tag-ID. To fit WhereLan-III

into the MAC space it is now that sensors MATCH bits 31 down to 2.

• The embedded tags not matching the MAC address is causing issues,

because the WhereWAND uses the Rf embedded tag id to

communicate with the Location sensor.

The differences described above cause three main issues with the WhereLAN-

III MAC address and running an older version of VSS prior to VSS 4.0.5.2,

cause.

1. The Blink Service auto-generates a list of expected/known system

embedded tags based on the MAC address in SiteData. Entering the

MAC as listed on the unit, a legacy BlinkService will not generate a

proper list of embedded reference tags, and the Time Service will not

receive the embedded tag blinks it needs from the WhereLAN-III.

2. iSensor validates the MAC addresses in sitedata.dat match the MAC of

the Location sensors. With legacy iSensor, this causes red-lights on

the health and status display.

3. The WhereWAND’s download of the site configuration contain the

MAC addresses of each Location Sensor. The WhereWAND must use

the Rf embedded tag Id to communicate with the location sensor and

legacy WhereWand FW calculates the tag-ID incorrectly, resulting in

no-response from the specific sensor.