User's Manual

pulsAR radio Operator’s Manual
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the Ethernet port in promiscuous mode and therefore look at all the packets in the Local Area
Network. The radios discard the packets that are known to be local, but forward all other
packets to remote radios. These are accounted separately in the report.
The “times” format indicates whether that entry is for a “multicast” (MC) address, shows the
time when the station was added to the table, and how long since that address has been seen.
When the “idle” time exceeds the time specified by the “ethernet” command, that entry is
deleted from the table.
links table
This table displays various statistics for all the RF links with adjacent radios. For a leaf or
remote radio there is only one entry which is the link to the parent. For a parent radio there
may be multiple entries. The entry with an ID of 1 is always the link to the parent. The table
shows the link distance in either miles of km. You can use the “distance” command to change
the units.
If this radio is enabled for roaming and is set to receive in more than one channel, then this
report also includes the “Roaming Table”. This table includes a line for each receive channel,
the Hub Serial Number of a hub transmitting in that channel, the RSSI and the time elapsed (in
seconds) since that RSSI was measured.
ROAMING TABLE: Rx Hub Time
chan Ser.N RSSI elapsed
---- ------- ---- -------
12 16322 -73 1.0
25 16300 -65 0.4
current chan -> 32 15005 -53 0.0
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DIRECT LINKS: Rmt Rmt My % Dropped
# Ant Name Ser.N RSSI km TxPwr RSSI Now Ever Uptime
-- - --------- ----- ---- ----- ----- ---- --- ---- ---------
1 A bra-15005 15005 -61 0 18 -53 0 0.0 000:58:40
tree table
In response to this command the radio broadcasts a discovery packet to obtain information from
all the radios in the network including radios that may be several hops away. It then displays
various statistics for all the links. The first column indicates in an indented fashion the “level”
of each radio in the tree, which corresponds to the number of hops away from the root (or hub).
For each radio that is a parent the report displays the entries of all its children before moving to
another node at the same level. You can find the parent of any node by going up the table to
the first entry with one level lower.
COMPLETE TREE NETWORK:
/----- Parent Link -----\
Level Type # Name IP address km RSSI % Uptime
------ ---- -- --------- --------------- ----- ---- -- ---------
0 RT1 0 rt1-16322 207.154.90.108
1 bra 4 bra-16300 207.154.90.161 0 -71 0 000:56:33
2 lf 4 rmt-16323 0 -71 0 001:05:25
* 1 bra 6 bra-15005 207.154.90.163 0 -76 0 000:58:20
2 lf 4 lf-17001 0 -53 0 000:56:33
radios table
This command displays both the links table and the tree table described above.