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Nexus PRO™

sB3021

User Guide

Version 1.0

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Page 2: ...Bridge to Remote Bridge 32 2 6 2 Root Bridge to Remote Router NAT 34 2 6 3 Remote Bridge to Root Bridge 36 2 6 4 Remote Router NAT to Root Bridge 37 2 6 5 Remote Router NAT to Remote Bridge 39 2 6 6 R...

Page 3: ...TOOLS 91 8 1 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 91 8 1 1 SNMP Security 93 8 1 2 Reset Options 94 8 1 3 NTP Time Server Setup 95 8 2 PROFILE MANAGER 95 8 2 1 Save Profile 97 8 2 2 Load Operating Profile 97 8 2 3 Pr...

Page 4: ...requirements are listed Chapter 2 explains how to login as an administrator and to change the default password The features of the configuration page as well as the Navigation Menu Bar are explained Y...

Page 5: ...m Technical Support Center Comprehensive technical support by dedicated smartBridges engineers is available to all customers through the smartBridges support center website The website provides update...

Page 6: ...ration 7 Bandwidth management 8 QoS 9 Antenna alignment 10 Traffic Statistics 11 Site Survey 12 Profile management 13 User management 14 Link Test 15 Link Budget Planning Calculator 16 Firmware Upgrad...

Page 7: ...itude Deg Min Sec 5 Longitude Deg Min Sec 6 UPS Installed Yes No 7 UPS specification if any KVA 8 Line Voltage 90V 264V AC 50 60 Hz 9 Near Line of site between sites Yes No 10 Height of tower Feet Met...

Page 8: ...nning tools such as Netstumbler Specify channel number Pre Installation Lab Testing of Equipment No Parameters Units Site A Site B 1 Network diagram along with IP address of all the interfaces for lin...

Page 9: ...eneral Configuration Information No Parameters Units Site A Site B 1 Radio Operation Mode Repeater or Link Aggregate 2 Mode of Operation PTP 3 SSID of a Radio Up to 32 characters 4 IP address of Ether...

Page 10: ...Yes No 4 Ensure Ethernet cable is not running near a sharp edge Yes No 5 Ensure airHaul2 Nexus PRO along with antenna is fixed securely on a tower mast with the help of nuts and bolt supplied in pack...

Page 11: ...unit comes with the pre configured default Ethernet wired side IP address 192 168 0 208 and subnet mask 255 255 255 0 This default device IP address should be used when accessing the device configura...

Page 12: ...airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 1 Administrator Login 4 Click the OK button A License agreement page will appear as shown in Fig 2 2 below Figure 2 2 License Agreement Page 5 Click Accept The a...

Page 13: ...Page 13 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 3 airHaul2 Nexus PRO Summary Information Page...

Page 14: ...m Wireless Throughput in kbps for Radio A Radio A Wireless Configuration Mode Displays current operational mode of the radio SSID Device SSID Channel Device operation channel RSSI RSSI value when asso...

Page 15: ...llow the steps below to change the Administrator password 1 Click on the Tools User Manager drop down menu in the navigation menu bar An Administrator Password change GUI will appear 2 Enter the field...

Page 16: ...n the Summary Information page above Bridge IP Configuration Wireless Configuration for Radio A and Radio B are configurable The Port Information parameters are displayed as read only Clicking on the...

Page 17: ...Page 17 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 6 Editable Boxes for Parameter Editing...

Page 18: ...le for ports ETH A ETH B Radio A Radio B etc Bridge configuration option is available when airHaul2 Nexus PRO is configured in Root Bridge or Remote Bridge mode DHCP Server Configure DHCP server or Re...

Page 19: ...PSK TKIP AES Based on the 802 11i standard WPA2 was released in 2004 and uses a stronger method of encryption Tools System Configuration System Name Allows user to change the name of the airHaul2 Nexu...

Page 20: ...Disabled LED Control Allows user to turn on off LED control Device Mode Set the Current Device Operational mode Repeater Mode Link Aggregation Root Router Mode Link Aggregation Remote Router NAT Mode...

Page 21: ...rHaul2 Nexus PRO is configured in Remote Bridge mode or Remote Router NAT mode User Manager Allows the administrator to change the Administrator password Tools Firmware Upgrade Allows user to update t...

Page 22: ...s in a degradation of the link efficiency which could be due to several reasons a single link with larger spacing gives lower bandwidth the Remote might not be in line of sight etc However with the du...

Page 23: ...Two dropdown menus for configuring the two radios will appear 4 Radio A can be configured as Root and Radio B as Remote and vice versa 5 Click on Apply Changes A confirmation IP configuration pop up...

Page 24: ...Page 24 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 9 Confirmation IP Configuration Figure 2 10 Repeater Mode with both radios associated...

Page 25: ...k redundancy without user intervention if one of the link fails However please note that if one of the links fail the bandwidth will be reduced as only a single link is functional Figure 2 11 Link Agg...

Page 26: ...and Radio B of the Remote Device which should be configured in Link Aggregate Remote Router NAT Mode Note Ensure that both local and remote devices are enabled for Link Aggregate Mode Note When using...

Page 27: ...Page 27 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 12 Link Aggregate Root Router Mode Configurations...

Page 28: ...m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 13 Confirmation Wireless IP Configuration pop up window After configuring the device as Link Aggregation Root Router mode the summary page looks as follows Fig...

Page 29: ...as shown below 4 After setting the wireless IP click on the Apply Changes Refer to the figure below for the confirmation pop up window Note Please look into the Example in the 2 5 2 section while conf...

Page 30: ...Page 30 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 15 Link Aggregate Remote Router NAT Mode Configuration Page...

Page 31: ...a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 16 Confirmation Wireless IP pop up window After configuring the device in Link Aggregation Remote NAT mode the summary page looks as follows Figure...

Page 32: ...w the steps below to change from Root Bridge mode to Remote Bridge mode 1 Go to Tools System Configuration drop down menu The System Configuration will be displayed as shown below 2 Alternatively clic...

Page 33: ...n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 18 System Configuration Page Root to Remote Bridge Note Before changing one of the radios to Remote the other radio needs to...

Page 34: ...er to go to the System Configuration page 3 Click on the Current Operational Mode and select the radio that has to be configured as Remote Router NAT Click on Apply Changes A confirmation pop up windo...

Page 35: ...13 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 20 System Configuration Page Root Bridge to Remote Router NAT Figure 2 21 Changing Root Bridge to Remote...

Page 36: ...de link on the top right hand corner to go to the System Configuration page 3 Click on the Current Operational Mode Select the Radio that has to be configured as Root Bridge and click on Apply Changes...

Page 37: ...shown below 2 Alternatively click on the current device mode link on the top right hand corner to go to the System Configuration page 3 Click on the Current Operational Mode Select the Radio that has...

Page 38: ...13 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 24 System Configuration Page Remote Router NAT to Root Bridge Figure 2 25 Changing Remote Router NAT to...

Page 39: ...ode link on the top right hand corner to go to the System Configuration page 3 Click on Current Operational Mode select the radio that has to be configured as Remote Bridge and click on Apply Changes...

Page 40: ...ly click on the current device mode link on the top right hand corner to go to the System Configuration page 3 Click on Current Operational Mode Select the Radio that has to be configured as Remote Ro...

Page 41: ...Page 41 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 28 System Configuration page Remote Bridge to Remote Router NAT...

Page 42: ...Page 42 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 29 Changing Remote Bridge to Remote Router NAT...

Page 43: ...s two Ethernet ports function as a bridge The Bridge IP Configuration provides configuration for the bridge IP parameters Follow the steps below to change the Root Bridge Ethernet Configurations 1 Fro...

Page 44: ...he Radio dropdown menu select the particular radio that needs to be configured with the wireless settings in the Root Bridge Mode 2 The Radio Configuration page will appear Click on the Wireless Setti...

Page 45: ...ing for the radio The radio channel settings correspond to the frequencies available in the user regulatory domain Note There should be a minimum separation of 40MHZ between the two radio channels Dia...

Page 46: ...MAC of the associated remote device The RSSI Received Signal Strength Indication is measured in dBm Click on the Link Status link to view the Link Status graph shown below Figure 2 33 Remote Link Sta...

Page 47: ...Page 47 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 34 Bridge Configuration Information...

Page 48: ...root bridge and a loop free path from the root to all infrastructure devices in the Layer 2 network STP forces redundant data paths into a standby blocked state If a network segment in the spanning tr...

Page 49: ...ee A higher numerical value means a lower priority thus the highest priority is 8 Ethernet port ETH B path cost 100 0 65535 The cost of using the port to reach the root bridge When selecting among mul...

Page 50: ...orwarding Table The Transparent Aging Time default value is 300 seconds Follow the steps below to configure the bridge STP in Root Bridge or Remote Bridge 1 Click on Networking Bridge Configuration to...

Page 51: ...Page 51 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 35 Bridge Configuration...

Page 52: ...e Bridge mode Follow these steps below if you need to re configure the Remote Bridge Ethernet parameters 1 From the Summary Information page click on the Bridge IP Configuration link to change Etherne...

Page 53: ...Remote Bridge Mode 2 Enter the SSID of the Root Bridge airHaul2 Nexus PRO unit 3 Enter the radio MAC address of the Root Bridge airHaul2 Nexus PRO unit 4 Choose a radio domain from the drop down list...

Page 54: ...l2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 38 Remote Bridge Associated Figure 2 39 Remote Bridge Association with Root Bridge If the association status window does not appear click on the link to download the J...

Page 55: ...uter 2 9 1 Bridge IP Configuration The Ethernet IP is configured when the operational mode of one of the radios is configured as Remote Router NAT Follow these steps below if you need to re configure...

Page 56: ...t Follow these steps below to configure the Remote Router NAT Mode Wireless IP Settings parameters 1 Click on the Wireless IP Configuration link from the Summary Information page 2 Enter the wireless...

Page 57: ...the radio that has to be configured with the wireless settings 2 Enter the SSID and domain of the airHaul2 Nexus PRO Root Bridge device 3 Select the Transmit Power of the radio from Dial a Power drop...

Page 58: ...ck on Status to view the association link status graph Figure 2 44 Link Status Noise Floor is the measure of the signal created from the sum of all noise sources and unwanted signals within a measurem...

Page 59: ...P to start the DHCP server configuration 3 Enter the starting IP address for the IP pool range that can be assigned to a DHCP client 4 Enter the maximum number of users for the maximum number of clien...

Page 60: ...y agent of the DHCP Server for IP address assignment Follow the steps below to configure the Remote Router NAT unit as a DHCP Relay Agent 1 Click on Networking DHCP Server from the drop down menu to a...

Page 61: ...elay Agent Configurations Follow the steps below to disable the Remote Router NAT DHCP Relay Agent 1 Click on Networking DHCP Server from the menu bar to access the DHCP configuration page 2 Click on...

Page 62: ...Haul2 Nexus PRO User Guide 2 9 5 Routing Table The web interface allows viewing of the routes and the addition and removal of the static routes for the Remote Router NAT The Routing Table is common to...

Page 63: ...iew routing table page 2 Click on Del on the right hand side of the route entry to be deleted 3 Click on Apply Changes to delete the route Note Only static routes can be deleted Follow these steps bel...

Page 64: ...Page 64 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 50 Adding Static Route...

Page 65: ...ion is available only when the Device Operational Mode is set as Repeater Mode Note If only one radio is needed ensure that the other radio is disabled Follow the steps below to disable one of the rad...

Page 66: ...Page 66 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 51 Disabling of one radio Figure 2 52 Radio B Disabled...

Page 67: ...irHaul2 Nexus PRO radio To enable or disable WEP or change the relevant settings the user can go to the security setting page on the web interface The following table describes the information for the...

Page 68: ...of the desired radio 2 Click the Enable button on the WEP 3 Choose the Authentication as Open System or Shared Key by clicking on the radio button 4 Choose a WEP Key Size 64 Bits or 128 Bits from the...

Page 69: ...the settings WPA PSK To configure WPA PSK follow the steps below 1 Click on the RADIO A Security similarly for Radio B Security 2 Select the WPA PSK from the dropdown menu of the Security Mode 3 Dial...

Page 70: ...me The time period during which the keys will be re negotiated MAC Address MAC address of the client that can get authenticated WPA2 PSK Based on the 802 11i standard WPA2 was released in 2004 and use...

Page 71: ...Page 71 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 2 55 WPA2 PSK...

Page 72: ...h between 256 and 2346 2 RTS CTS between 256 and 2346 3 RSSI Threshold between 90 and 20 4 Preamble Settings Long Short or Dynamic 5 Distance 6 Frame Bursting 7 Concatenation 8 Piggy Back 9 Radio Oper...

Page 73: ...ins information the Root Device and Remote devices need when sending and receiving packets The dropdown menu allows the user to select a long short or dynamic radio preamble The default is dynamic Lon...

Page 74: ...roughput Optimizer is used to optimize the radio link speed and performance The valid range is 0 to 10 The default value is 6 Setting a higher value will cause the radio to attempt to establish at the...

Page 75: ...ed to specify the necessary bandwidth parameters on both the airHaul2 Nexus PRO devices The user can key in the maximum bandwidth of the wireless link allowed if the feeding bandwidth is adequate Foll...

Page 76: ...11 is defined by the IEEE 802 11e set of standards Wireless Multimedia Extensions WME also known as Wi Fi Multimedia WMM is a Wi Fi Alliance certification based on this IEEE 802 11e WMM prioritizes t...

Page 77: ...RO User Guide Figure 4 2 QoS Front Page Altogether we have 9 different classes which can be configured Note Class 1 indicates the default value In order to define the filters for a class follow the st...

Page 78: ...e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 4 3 Selection Menu of Application Filter 3 Select whether the packet has to be filtered based on IP or MAC Figure 4 4 Selecti...

Page 79: ...er the packet has to be filtered based on Source address or the Destination address If the packet being filtered is based on IP then enter the IP address Or if it is filtered based on the MAC then ent...

Page 80: ...Guide 5 Select the Port either Destination or Source based and select the Port Number from the drop down menu Alternatively the Port Number can be customized Figure 4 7 Selection of Destination Source...

Page 81: ...l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide 6 Assign the TOS value between 1 and 255 Figure 4 9 TOS value Dialog Box 7 After configuring the user defined filter click on the Add to List to add the se...

Page 82: ...uide 8 After adding the desired filters to the list Click on the Apply Changes to save the configuration of the filters There will be a confirmation pop up window Click OK to confirm or Cancel to disc...

Page 83: ...the QOS main page click on the QoS the page appears as shown in the figure below 2 Key in the desired bandwidth inside the dialog box of Minimum and Maximum Bandwidth 3 Use the scroll bar to select th...

Page 84: ...Page 84 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 4 14 QoS Configuration Page...

Page 85: ...mode To access the site survey page go to Tools Site Survey drop down menu The following figure shows the list of SSID from the site survey It helps to select the root device with which the remote ca...

Page 86: ...e link status display Click on the Antenna Alignment Tone On button to hear the alignment tones For more information on antenna alignment please refer to the Quick Installation Guide To perform the an...

Page 87: ...Page 87 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 6 1 Antenna Alignment...

Page 88: ...xus PRO User Guide 7 Traffic Statistics Wireless and Ethernet Traffic Statistics can be displayed by clicking on the Networking Statistics dropdown menu The following figure shows the statistics page...

Page 89: ...ror along the path In most cases packet loss is due to network congestion Packets are discarded to avoid the very large delays that can arise when too much traffic is queued up Transmitted error No of...

Page 90: ...ceived Duplicate Rate No of successfully received unicast MPDUs that were a duplicate of earlier frames Received Frame FCS Error Count No of unsuccessfully received frames ACK Receives Failure Count N...

Page 91: ...save the configuration parameters as profiles and use the Link Budget Planning Tool 8 1 System Configuration The System Configuration page provides a one page tool to configure the airHaul2 Nexus PRO...

Page 92: ...ory Defaults Resets the device to factory default settings Ethernet MTU Size Set the Ethernet MTU Size Syslog server IP Address Displays the current message syslog server IP Address The user can chang...

Page 93: ...ew Community and Confirm Community with the same string 2 Check the SNMP Access Filters Enable box 3 Enter Access Filters IP Address and Mask Up to three IP settings can be entered 4 Click the Apply C...

Page 94: ...monthly basis The current time can be set by specifying a NTP server there is one already specified by default and the time zone ensure that the NTP server is reachable After enabling the delayed rese...

Page 95: ...rom the device Use the ping test tool from the Tools Link Test to check if the NTP server can be pinged from the device The device can still operate without the Time Server configuration however you w...

Page 96: ...file name for the current configuration to be saved Profile Description Specify a description for the profile to be saved Save Profile button Click to save current profile Change Profile To Select whi...

Page 97: ...d on different calendar times The user can configure different profiles and scheduled activities based on the different profiles at a pre defined time A typical situation is when an operator has two p...

Page 98: ...Page 98 of 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 8 6 Scheduling a Profile...

Page 99: ...n test Throughput and perform Ping Test The user needs to run Radio Transmit on one radio and Radio Receive on the other to run the Throughput test The user needs to specify the IP address for the tes...

Page 100: ...t Test 1 Set up a link between two airHaul2 Nexus PRO units 2 Enter a valid IP address of the radio at the far end 3 Click on the Radio Receive or Radio Transmit button 4 The Throughput Test will star...

Page 101: ...ts miles or kilometers 3 Click the Compute Distance button 4 The distance between the two stations will be displayed in the distance box as shown in the figure below Figure 8 9 Link Budget Planning Ca...

Page 102: ...rHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide The ideal fade margin for a link is between 10 dBm to 20 dBm for a stable link based on the environmental conditions of the area The Fresnel Zone Clearance required will al...

Page 103: ...tp www smartbridges com support ah2np asp to your local PC 2 Login to the device web interface Go to Tools Firmware Upgrade drop down menu The Firmware Upgrade page will be displayed as shown below 3...

Page 104: ...f 113 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m airHaul2 Nexus PRO User Guide Figure 9 2 airHaul2 Nexus PRO Firmware Upgrade firmware transferred Figure 9 3 Successful firmware upgrade pop...

Page 105: ...ode association is based on channel and MAC authorization only ESSID will not be used for the setting up a link If the remote client is configured in a bridge mode and channel needs to be changed then...

Page 106: ...RTS CTS is to minimize collisions and retransmission in a highly overcrowded Fragmentation Fragmentation can be used to avoid retransmission of the packets The fragment size value can typically be se...

Page 107: ...of a radio Usually it will associate within 1 minute For few channels the radios is required to sense the channel for a full one minute before it will even send out a beacon for setting up a link Firm...

Page 108: ...ed into separate VLANs 802 11i An upcoming security standard currently being developed by IEEE that features 802 1x authentication protection and adds AES Advanced Encryption Standard technology a str...

Page 109: ...cess control is still employed The Authentication Server provides the mechanism for creating the keys Packet Concatenation Packet concatenation will increase the throughput of the equipment by simply...

Page 110: ...parameters automatically SNMP Short for Simple Network Management Protocol a set of protocols for managing complex networks The first versions of SNMP were developed in the early 80s SNMP works by se...

Page 111: ...Object Identifier 1 3 6 1 4 1 14882 2 1 1 Value changed IP address IP netmask Object Identifier 1 3 6 1 4 1 14882 2 1 2 Value changed IP netmask Gateway Object Identifier 1 3 6 1 4 1 14882 2 1 3 Value...

Page 112: ...errors in the NEXUS MIB files NEXUS MIB RADIO MIB SLA MIB QOS MIB DHCP MIB ROUTE MIB In such an event try compiling with all the comments removed Comments start with a The important MIB files The NEXU...

Page 113: ...ovided that the following conditions are met 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 2 Redistributions in binary fo...

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