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Echelon MPR-50 Multi-Port Router User Manual

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3. Place the MPR in Repeater mode by pressing the Monitor Service Pin button for

30-40 seconds. The MPR is in repeater mode when all the LEDs flash green.

4. Start the MPR-50 Buffer Management utility.

5. Select the Network Interface device from dropdown list in the Network Interface

area of the MPR-50 Buffer Management utility main window, and click Open.

6. Click the Buffer Recover Mode button to ON to enter buffer recovery mode.

The button turns orange (or yellow) while you are in this mode.

7. Press the Service Pin button on the router that the network interface is

connected to.

8. The log area of the MPR-50 Buffer Management utility main window shows

“Buffer configuration complete” when the buffers have been successfully

modified.

9. Press the Service Pin button on another of the MPR-50’s routers. If you don’t see

that this Service Pin message is received, make sure that the router is in

Repeater Mode (see step 3).

10. The log area of the MPR-50 Buffer Management utility main window shows

“Buffer configuration complete” when the buffers have been successfully

modified.

11. Repeat steps 9 and 10 until you have fixed the buffers for all five routers.

12. If you want to use the default buffer size of 114 bytes, proceed to step 18.

Otherwise, proceed to the next step.

13. Click the Buffer Recover Mode button to OFF to leave buffer recovery mode.

The button turns grey.

14. Select the buffer size that you want from the Buffer Configurations area of the

MPR-50 Buffer Management utility main window.

15. Press the Service Pin button on all of the routers.

As you press each of the Service Pins, notice that the number displayed on the

Routers Found button of the MPR-50 Buffer Management utility main window

is incremented. When you see “*5*” on the Routers Found button, the utility

has received all five of the MPR-50 routers’ Service Pin messages.

You must press the Service Pin for all of the MPR-50’s routers before the utility

can configure their buffers.

If the utility does not recognize all of the routers’ Service Pin messages, then the

MPR-50 is likely not in Repeater Mode (see step 3).

You can click the Routers Found button to clear the list of registered routers.

16. Click the Buffer Configure button on the MPR-50 Buffer Management utility

main window to change the buffer sizes.

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Appendix A – Buffer Management Utility