Smartbridges sB3021 User Manual

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Page 10 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Checklist No Parameters Units Site A Site B 1 Check out the c

Page 100 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.3.1 Throughput Test Follow the steps below to do a Throughput T

Page 101 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.4 Link Budget Planning Link Budget Planning is a very useful

Page 102 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide The ideal fade margin for a link is between 10 dBm to 20 dBm for a

Page 103 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 9. Firmware Upgrade The latest firmware for airHaul2 Nexus PRO.is

Page 104 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 9-2 airHaul2 Nexus PRO Firmware Upgrade (firmware transfer

Page 105 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Appendix A – Points to Remember Antenna Frequency support • 5GH

Page 106 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Radio • Transmit power – can be varied between -5 dBm to +23 dBm

Page 107 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Link Test • Web based ping test and throughput test option is av

Page 108 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Appendix B – Useful terms and definitions Acronyms and Abbreviati

Page 109 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide WEP According to the IEEE 802.11 standard, Wired Equivalent Priva

Page 11 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2. airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ Configuration Here you will learn how to log

Page 110 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide every 30 seconds by default. Other RIP equipments will listen for

Page 111 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Appendix C – SNMP Trap The airHaul2 Nexus PRO.generates SNMP trap

Page 112 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Appendix D – SNMP MIB The Mib for airHaul2 Nexus PRO device can b

Page 113 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Appendix E – License The airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide is Copyri

Page 12 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-1 Administrator Login 4. Click the ’OK’ button. A Licen

Page 13 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-3 airHaul2 Nexus PRO Summary Information Page

Page 14 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide The page information descriptions are provided in the table below.

Page 15 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.2. Web GUI Administrator Password Change By default the Admini

Page 16 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.3. Using the Configuration Pages The airHaul2 Nexus PRO configu

Page 17 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-6 Editable Boxes for Parameter Editing

Page 18 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.4. Navigation Menu Bar The Navigation Menu Bar contains menu it

Page 19 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Menu Item Menu Sub-items Description Provides a link to vie

Page 2 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT ...

Page 20 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Menu Item Menu Sub-items Description Ethernet MTU Size: All

Page 21 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Menu Item Menu Sub-items Description Antenna alignment Shows th

Page 22 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.5. Device Operation Mode This section explains the configuratio

Page 23 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide To configure the device in Repeater Mode, follow the steps below:

Page 24 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-9 Confirmation IP Configuration Figure 2-10 Repeater

Page 25 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.5.2 Link Aggregate Root Router Mode The Link Aggregate Mode is

Page 26 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide To configure the device in Link Aggregate Root Router Mode, follow

Page 27 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-12 Link Aggregate Root Router Mode Configurations

Page 28 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-13 Confirmation Wireless IP Configuration pop up window

Page 29 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.5.3 Link Aggregate Remote Router/NAT Mode Follow the steps belo

Page 3 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 3.1 LINK PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS AND FEATURES...

Page 30 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-15 Link Aggregate – Remote Router/NAT Mode Configuration

Page 31 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-16 Confirmation Wireless IP pop up window After configur

Page 32 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.6 Dual Radio Configuration In the Repeater mode, the two radios

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Page 34 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-19 Changing Root Bridge to Remote Bridge 2.6.2 Root Br

Page 35 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-20 System Configuration Page – Root Bridge to Remote Rou

Page 36 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.6.3 Remote Bridge to Root Bridge Follow the steps below to chan

Page 37 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-23 Changing Remote Bridge to Root Bridge 2.6.4 Remote

Page 38 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-24 System Configuration Page--Remote Router/NAT to Root

Page 39 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.6.5 Remote Router/NAT to Remote Bridge Follow the steps below t

Page 4 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide About This Document This User Guide is for the networking professio

Page 40 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-27 Changing Remote Router/NAT to Remote Bridge 2.6.

Page 41 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-28: System Configuration page--Remote Bridge to Remote R

Page 42 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-29 Changing Remote Bridge to Remote Router/NAT

Page 43 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.7 Root Bridge Configuration The airHaul2 Nexus PRO unit is conf

Page 44 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.7.2 Wireless Configurations The wireless parameters need to be c

Page 45 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide The following table summarizes the information for the wireless set

Page 46 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide The figure below shows the list of clients associated with the airH

Page 47 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-34 Bridge Configuration Information

Page 48 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.7.3 Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) STP is a Layer 2 l

Page 49 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Bridge forward delay 15 4-30 The period of time a bridge will w

Page 5 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Related Publications These documents provide complete information a

Page 50 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Radio port (Radio A) priority 128 0-255 The preference that STP

Page 51 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-35 Bridge Configuration

Page 52 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.8 Remote Bridge Configuration The airHaul2 Nexus PRO units can

Page 53 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.8.2 Wireless Configuration The wireless parameters need to be co

Page 54 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-38 Remote Bridge Associated Figure 2-39 Remote Bridge

Page 55 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.9 Remote Router/NAT Configuration The airHaul2 Nexus PRO units

Page 56 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.9.2 Wireless Configuration The wireless parameters need to be co

Page 57 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide In order for the Remote Router/NAT device to associate with the Roo

Page 58 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Click on ‘Status’ to view the association link-status graph. Figu

Page 59 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.9.3 DHCP Configurations The airHaul2 Nexus PRO Remote Router/NAT

Page 6 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 1. Introduction In this chapter, the configuration features of the w

Page 60 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Follow the steps below to disable the Remote Router/NAT DHCP server

Page 61 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-47 DHCP Relay Agent Configurations Follow the steps bel

Page 62 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.9.5 Routing Table The web interface allows viewing of the routes

Page 63 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-49 Deleting a Route entry in the Routing Table Follow

Page 64 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-50 Adding Static Route

Page 65 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.10 Disabling Radio for Single Radio Operation The Dual Nexus PR

Page 66 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-51 Disabling of one radio Figure 2-52 Radio B Disabl

Page 67 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 2.11. Wireless Settings Management The Radio Configuration Main pag

Page 68 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Valid Key Chooses which key in the key table is used for authentica

Page 69 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Follow the steps below to disable Data Encryption: 1. Click the ‘

Page 7 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 1.3. Checklists Pre-Installation Checklist for airHaul2 Nexus PRO Or

Page 70 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Table 2-6 WPA-PSK Page Items Descriptions WPA-PSK WPA-PSK is an e

Page 71 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 2-55 WPA2-PSK

Page 72 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 3. Performance Parameters and Bandwidth Controller This chapter gi

Page 73 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Page Item Descriptions Default value is 2346 bytes. The range of v

Page 74 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Page Item Descriptions According to the IEEE 802.11 standard speci

Page 75 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 3.2 Bandwidth Controller Using the bandwidth controller on the ro

Page 76 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 4. Quality of Service (QoS) The primary goal of QoS is to provide

Page 77 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 4-2 QoS Front Page Altogether, we have 9 different class

Page 78 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 4-3 Selection Menu of Application Filter 3. Select wheth

Page 79 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 4. Select whether the packet has to be filtered based on Source ad

Page 8 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide No Parameters Units Site A Site B 22 Length of external cable c

Page 80 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 5. Select the Port, either Destination or Source based and select

Page 81 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 6. Assign the TOS value between 1 and 255. Figure 4-9 TOS value

Page 82 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8. After adding the desired filters to the list, Click on the Appl

Page 83 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Deleting Filters: 1. The filters added can be deleted by first s

Page 84 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 4-14 QoS Configuration Page

Page 85 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 5. Survey The Site Survey tool is available for airHaul2 Nexus PR

Page 86 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 6. Antenna Alignment Antenna Alignment can be used to optimize the

Page 87 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 6-1 Antenna Alignment

Page 88 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 7. Traffic Statistics Wireless and Ethernet Traffic Statistics can

Page 89 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Table 7-1 Ethernet Traffic Statistics Ethernet Traffic Statistics

Page 9 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Post-Installation Checklist for airHaul2 Nexus PRO Organization Name

Page 90 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Table 7-2 Wireless Traffic Statistics Wireless Traffic Statistics

Page 91 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8. Tools Instructions on using the System Configuration Tools such

Page 92 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Table 8-1 System Configuration Page Item Descriptions System

Page 93 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.1.1 SNMP Security The user can edit the SNMP Community String an

Page 94 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.1.2 Reset Options All reset options power cycles the device and

Page 95 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.1.3 NTP Time Server Setup The device time comes from the network

Page 96 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 8-5 Profile Manager Table 8-3 Function Descriptions

Page 97 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.2.1 Save Profile Follow the steps below to save the current conf

Page 98 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide Figure 8-6 Scheduling a Profile

Page 99 of 113 intelligent wireless platform airHaul2 Nexus PRO™ User Guide 8.3 Link Test The Link Test utility is available from the navigati