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Creating and Configuring L
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Routers
A router enables application devices on separate channels to communicate. The router may be a
LonPoint router, an MPR-50 Multi-Port Router, a SmartServer with IP-852 routing, an i.LON 600
L
ON W ORKS /IP Server, a SmartServer, or other compatible ISO/IEC 14908-1 (Control Network
Protocol [CNP]) or ISO/IEC 14908-4 (IP-852) router.
You can use a single router to connect two channels or use multiple redundant routers between the
same pair of channels. You can also use an MPR-50 Multi-Port Router to connect up to four TP/FT-10
free topology twisted-pair channels, or to connect one or more FT/TP-10 channels to a TP/XF-1250
high-speed backbone. See the MPR-50 Multi-Port Router User’s Guide for more information on
installing and using the MPR-50 Multi-Port Router.
To add a router you first define the router and then commission it. To define a router, you enter the
router name, specify the router type, and select the channel connected to the far side of the router. To
commission a router, you associate the physical router on the network with the router you created with
the SmartServer. See Installing L
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commissioning devices.
Creating L
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Routers
To create a L ON W ORKS router follow these steps:
1. If you are creating a router from the SmartServer tree, verify that the SmartServer has access to an
OpenLNS network database. This means that an OpenLNS Server is on the LAN, you are
operating the SmartServer in LNS mode (you cannot attach a router to a network that is being
managed in standalone mode), and you have specified an OpenLNS Server and OpenLNS network
database to be updated with network configuration changes made with the SmartServer. See
Creating and Configuring L
ON W ORKS Networks for more information on setting these properties.
2. Verify that there are at least two channels in the network to connect. If there is only one channel,
you cannot create a router. See Creating L ON W ORKS Channels for how to add another channel to
the network.