Weidmuller WI-MOD-945-E: 900Mhz Wireless Ethernet & Device Server v2.16 - Manual (Page 6)

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION ......................................... 9
1.0 - N ETWORK T OPOLOGY ................................................ 9
1.1 - G ETTING S TARTED Q UICKLY .................................... 12
CHAPTER 2 - INSTALLATION ........................................ 13
2.0 - G ENERAL ................................................................ 13
2.1 - A NTENNA I NSTALLATION .......................................... 13
Antenna Diversity ........................................................... 14
Example ......................................................................... 14
Bench test and Demo System setup .............................. 14
Plant and factory installations ........................................ 14
Line-of-sight installations ............................................... 15
Antennas ........................................................................ 15
Installation tips ............................................................... 15
Dipole and Collinear antennas ....................................... 16
Directional antennas. ..................................................... 16
2.2 - P OWER S UPPLY ....................................................... 17
2.3 - S ERIAL C ONNECTIONS ............................................. 17
RS232 Serial Port .......................................................... 17
DB9 Connector Pin Outs ................................................ 17
RS485 Serial Port .......................................................... 18
2.4 - D ISCRETE (D IGITAL ) I NPUT /O UTPUT ......................... 19
CHAPTER 3 - OPERATION............................................... 20
3.0 - S TART - UP ................................................................ 20
“Access Point” Start-up .................................................. 20
“Client” Start-up.............................................................. 20
Link Establishment ......................................................... 20
How a Link connection is lost ......................................... 20
Roaming Clients............................................................. 20
LED Indication ............................................................... 21
3.1 - S ELECTING A C HANNEL ............................................ 21
802.11 (900 MHz) Channels .......................................... 21
Radio Throughput .......................................................... 23
Throughput and Repeaters ............................................ 24
3.2 - C ONFIGURING THE U NIT FOR THE FIRST TIME ............. 25
Default Configuration ..................................................... 25
Accessing Configuration for the first time ....................... 25
Method 1 - Set PC to same network as WI-MOD-945-E 26
Method 2 - Set WI-MOD-945-E Network address to match
the local network ............................................................ 27
3.3 - Q UICK S TART .......................................................... 29
3.4 - N ETWORK C ONFIGURATION ...................................... 30
Network Settings Webpage Fields ................................. 31
3.5 - S PANNING T REE A LGORITHM ................................... 33
3.6 - S ECURITY M ENU ...................................................... 33
WEP (64 bit) & (128 bit) ............................................. 34
Encryption Keys 1 to 4 ................................................... 34
Default WEP Key ........................................................... 34
WEP Open Authentication Mode ................................... 34
WEP Shares Authentication Mode ................................. 34
WPA / WPA2 ............................................................. 34
WPA Enterprise - Authenticator (AP) Configuration .. 35
Supplicant Re-authenticate Period:................................ 35
Enable Debug: ............................................................... 35
WPA Enterprise - Supplicant (Client) Configuration . 35
Username / Password: ................................................... 35
Enable Debug: ............................................................... 35
Trusted CA certificate upload ......................................... 35
Certificate Verification result: ......................................... 35
Trusted CA Certificate Contents: ................................... 35
3.7 - N ORMAL O PERATION ............................................... 36
Bridge Operation (Transparent Network) ....................... 36
Router Operation (Routed Network) .............................. 36
3.8 - R ADIO C ONFIGURATION ........................................... 36
Channel Selection .......................................................... 38
3.9 - A DVANCED R ADIO C ONFIGURATION ......................... 39
Fixed Noise Floor ........................................................... 40
3.10 - S ERIAL P ORT C ONFIGURATION .............................. 40
RS-232 PPP Server ....................................................... 40
Serial Gateway (Server/Client/Multicast) ....................... 41
Serial Gateway (Modbus - Modbus RTU to TCP) .......... 42
Modbus TCP to RTU Gateway ...................................... 43
3.11 - S ERIAL M ENU ........................................................ 44
RS-232 / RS485 Serial Port Configuration (Common to all)
....................................................................................... 44
RS232 PPP Server (Only RS232).................................. 44
RS-232 / RS485 Serial Gateway Mode .......................... 44
RS-232 / RS485 Modbus TCP/RTU Converter .............. 45
3.12 - M ULTICAST P IPE M ANAGER ................................... 46
Multicast Pipe Manager ................................................. 46
3.13 - D IGITAL I NPUT /O UTPUT ......................................... 47
3.14 - M ODBUS I/O T RANSFER ........................................ 47
3.15 - R OAMING .............................................................. 51
3.16 - R EPEATERS (WDS) ............................................... 53
Important Notes: ............................................................ 53
WDS Connections: .................................................... 54
Example 1 – Extending range using WDS ................ 55
Example 2 - Roaming with WDS Access Points ....... 56
Example 3 – Adding Redundancy ............................. 57
Example 4 – WDS Routed Network .......................... 58
3.17 - R OUTING R ULES .................................................... 60
3.18 - F ILTERING ............................................................. 62
MAC Address Filter Configuration:................................. 63
IP Address Filter Configuration: ..................................... 64
ARP Filter Configuration ................................................ 64
3.19 - DHCP C LIENT C ONFIGURATION ............................ 65
3.20 - DHCP S ERVER C ONFIGURATION ........................... 65
3.21 - DNS S ERVER C ONFIGURATION .............................. 65