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y Configure the encryption method and password to be the same.
3. To verify if the network is correctly setup, please use the computer to connect
one of the three devices to ping the IP of any of the other two devices. If the ping
is successfully, the network connection works correctly.
13.3 Router Mode
In the Router mode, the DH-PFM881 works as a router and the network
connection is shown in Figure 34. In Figure 34, The POE port of the POE adaptor is
connected to the DH-PFM881 device’s POE port, and the LAN port of the POE
adaptor is connected to the internet. Meanwhile, the LAN port of DH-PFM881
device is connected to one computer, and then user can configure the device.
Figure 34 Router mode
After the above connection is done, configure the DH-PFM881 device using the
web based configuration menu.
1. In wireless page, set the device to route mode, disable the firewall. If the
internet provided by the ISP (DH-PFM881 connected to) has a DHCP server,
user can set DH-PFM881’s WAN mode to DHCP (Dynamic IP) so that it can
obtain the IP address automatically.
If the internet provided by the ISP(DH-PFM881 connected to) doesn’t have a
DHCP server, user need to manually configure all the parameters given by the
ISP, such as the WAN IP, WAN subnet mask, LAN IP, LAN subnet mask, Default
gateway, Primary DNS, Secondary DNS.
Note: LAN IP address and WAN IP address cannot be in the same IP segment.
For example, if LAN IP is 192.168.1.*, then WAN IP must be set to 192.168.2.* or
192.168.3.*.
2. In wireless page, set wireless mode to Access Point, set SSID to a random name,
and set output power to a value needed(Max output power is recommended
in the outdoor long distance environment). Then the user needs to choose a
wireless channel and an encryption method.