Echelon LonMaker - Manual (Page 118)

102 Designing Networks
Creating a Router
A router enables application devices on separate channels to communicate. The router may be a
LonPoint router, an MPR-50 Multi-Port Router, an
i .LON 100 Internet Server with IP-852 routing, an
i .LON 600 LonWorks/IP Server, an i .LON 1000 Internet Server, or other ANSI/CEA-709.1
(EN14908) or ANSI/CEA-852 compatible router. This section describes how to create a router in a
LonMaker network design. See the i.LON 100 User's Guide and the i.LON 600 L
ON W ORKS /IP Server
User's Guide for instructions on IP-852 routing using those routers. See Creating an i.LON 1000
Internet Server in the LonMaker help file how to add an
i .LON 1000 Internet server to your LonMaker
drawing.
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.
A router in a LonMaker drawing corresponds to a physical router on the network. To add a router you
first define the router, and then commission it. To define a router, you specify the router name, select
the two channels it will connect, and specify the router properties. To commission a router, you
associate the physical router on the network with the router shape that you created in the LonMaker
drawing.
You can create a router in one step. To do this, you enable automatic channel selection and then drag a
router shape to your LonMaker drawing, near the two channels the router will connect. Otherwise, the
New Router Wizard appears when you add a device shape to your LonMaker drawing. See Using
Automatic Channel Selection in this section for how to enable this feature.
The first page of the New Router Wizard includes a Commission Router check box for
commissioning the router. To commission the router after defining it, select this check box. The
wizard will prompt you to identify the physical router before adding the router shape to your network
drawing. Otherwise, the wizard will add the router shape to your network drawing after you have
finished defining it.
To create a router in a LonMaker drawing, follow these steps:
1. Drag a Router shape from the LonMaker stencil to the drawing page. The New Router
Wizard appears unless you enabled automatic channel selection.