BreezeNET® B130/B300 GigE Quick Start Guide Software Version: 1.
Document History Document History Changed Item Description Date First Revision Document’s first revision April 2009 Second Revision Added BNB 130 November 2009 Third Revision Introduced GigE support July 2010 Alvarion BreezeNET B130/B300 GigE ii Quick Start Guide
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Contents Contents Chapter 1 - Getting Started ..................................................................... 1 1.1 Scope of Document....................................................................................................3 1.2 Abbreviations .............................................................................................................4 1.3 Document Marks ........................................................................................................5 1.
List of Figures List of Figures Figure 2-1: IDU Front .................................................................................................................... 9 Figure 2-2: IDU Rear ................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 2-3: ODU Front................................................................................................................. 10 Figure 2-4: Locating the HyperTerminal......................
List of Figures Figure 4-2: “muf stat” Command Output ..................................................................................... 44 Figure 4-3: “ltest” Output .............................................................................................................
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 1 - Getting Started In This Chapter: “Scope of Document” on page 3 “Abbreviations” on page 4 “Document Marks” on page 5 “Additional Information” on page 6 This document is designed to help engineers/technicians in rapid configuring of the system. The document includes detailed instructions for first configuration steps and configuration scenarios for typical network topologies.
Chapter 1 - Getting Started 1.1 Scope of Document Scope of Document This document consists of the following chapters: “Getting Started” on page 1 - This chapter includes the information about this document purpose and structure. “Getting Access to the Unit” on page 7 - The chapter describes how to get access to the device via Console Port and to configure Ethernet port.
Chapter 1 - Getting Started 1.2 Abbreviations Abbreviations The following abbreviations are used in this document: ODU - Outdoor Unit IDU - Indoor power supply Unit RF cable - Radio Frequency cable to connect ODU and antenna LOS - Line-of-Sight STP cable - Shielded Twisted Pair cable to connect ODU and IDU.
Chapter 1 - Getting Started 1.3 Document Marks Document Marks CAUTION All warnings are marked with a special warning sign. One should pay a great deal of attention to what is written in the Warning sections. NOTE All notes are marked with a special note sign. Notes usually contain useful comments or hints to the described section of the document.
Chapter 1 - Getting Started 1.
Chapter 2 Getting Access to the Unit
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit In This Chapter: “PC/Laptop/LAN Connection” on page 9 “Initial Setup” on page 20 Alvarion BreezeNET B130/B300 GigE 8 Quick Start Guide
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection 2.1 PC/Laptop/LAN Connection 2.1.1 Cabling (Lab) The sequence of actions to be performed in order to connect the unit to the PC/Laptop is the following: 1 Unpack the equipment 2 If you do not have a service cable soldered, please do it using special connectors included into the package according to the soldering scheme located in the "Supplementary information" section. STP cable cat 5 or cat 5E should be used. 3 Locate IDU and ODU.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-2: IDU Rear Figure 2-3: ODU Front Alvarion BreezeNET B130/B300 GigE 10 Quick Start Guide
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit 2.1.2 PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Accessing the Unit via Console If you cannot get access to the unit using procedure described in "Accessing the unit via Ethernet" section please follow the steps described in this section. 1 Using Console Cable, please connect the unit's console port (see Figure 2-3) to the COM-port of your PC/Laptop.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-5: Selecting the Port 8 Specify port parameters exactly as shown on Figure 2-6.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-6: Port Parameters 9 If you connected everything properly, selected the right port and made its configuration right, after pressing enter on the white blank screen (after step 8) you should see WANFleX OS prompt as shown on Figure 2-7.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-7: WANFleX OS Prompt 10 Your device has a factory configuration. The default login is "admin" and the default password is "private". 11 Once this is done, you will see WANFleX CLI (Command Line Interface). See Figure 2-8.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-9: Changing the IP Address on eth0 Interface 13 If all your settings are correct you can connect the unit to your LAN using UTP cable with RJ-45 connectors (Ethernet port of the unit is located on IDU). 2.1.3 Accessing the Unit via Ethernet If your PC/Laptop does not have a COM-port or you want to plug the unit to the LAN switch you can configure it using Telnet protocol.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-10: Opening the Control Panel 2 Open "Network connections" icon. See Figure 2-11. Figure 2-11: Network Connections 3 In "Network connections" folder right mouse button click on the LAN connection and click "Properties". See Figure 2-12.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-12: Connection Properties 4 Choose "Internet protocol (TCP/IP)" and click "Properties". See Figure 2-13. Figure 2-13: Internet Protocol Properties 5 If you want to connect to the unit using PC/Laptop you can just change an IP-address on the Ethernet adaptor to some address from 10.10.10.0/24 network (e.g. change "IP-address" field to "10.10.10.2" and "Subnet mask" to "255.255.255.0"). After that click OK and move to step 7.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-14: Changing the IP Address 6 If you are in a LAN and you do not want to change your primary IP-address so you could keep LAN connectivity, you can assign an alias. In order to do that, press "Advanced…" button (Figure 14). In "Advanced TCP/IP Settings" click "Add" and put alias IP-address and mask (e.g. "10.10.10.2" and "255.255.255.0" correspondingly). See Figure 2-15. Click OK in all windows opened in the described procedure.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit PC/Laptop/LAN Connection Figure 2-15: Creating an Alias 7 Run "Telnet" utility using "Start->Run" and typing "telnet IP-address" where IP-address is either the IP-address configured at Step 5 or alias configured at Step 6. 8 Follow Steps 9 to 11 of “Accessing the Unit via Console” on page 11 section in order to change the IP-address on the eth0 interface on the unit to the desired one.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit 2.2 Initial Setup Initial Setup Once you have got the access to the unit via Telnet, you can perform initial unit setup. Run telnet application (Start->Run) using IP-address that was assigned on the eth0 interface of the unit (for example, 9.1.8.1) First of all, let us list some useful commands that should be remembered.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit Initial Setup System prompt. This command will change current command line interface prompt: system prompt [any_word] Also, it may be useful to know firmware version that is currently available in the unit and unit's serial number. "Sys ver" command can be used for this purpose (Figure 16): Figure 2-16: System Version 2.2.2 Learning Unit's Capabilities 1 In order to learn current interfaces configuration, execute "co sh ifc" command.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit Initial Setup Figure 2-17: Interfaces Information Information on the specific interface can be obtained using "ifc " command. For example, "ifc rf5.0" will give you information on "rf5.0" interface. 3 In order to get unit's capabilities including available frequency list, transmit power levels, bitrates for the specific radio interface, "rf cap" command is used. For example, "rf rf5.0 cap". See Figure 2-18.
Chapter 2 - Getting Access to the Unit 2.2.3 Initial Setup Radio Module Parameters Configuration 1 Power level changing is accomplished using "rf txpwr " command. For example, "rf rf5.0 txpwr 18" sets transmitting power level to 18 dBm. Power level specified in the command should be the one from the list of available power levels. 2 Frequency changing is accomplished using "rf freq " command. For example, "rf rf5.
Chapter 3 Point-to-Point Configuration
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration In This Chapter: “Unit’s Configuration” on page 26 “Learning Connection Status” on page 28 “Providing IP Connectivity” on page 30 “Link Throughput Test” on page 38 In our point-to-point configuration example we will build a simple network as shown in Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1: Sample Network (PtP Connection) Here we will set up a connection between two PC/Laptops.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.1 Unit’s Configuration Unit’s Configuration 1 Choose two units. 2 Provide connectivity from PC1 to Unit1 and PC2 to Unit2 following the procedure described in "“Getting Access to the Unit” on page 7". As a result you should make sure that you can ping/telnet Unit1 from PC1 and ping/telnet Unit 2 from PC2. 3 Now we will proceed to units’ configuration. From PC1 enter Unit 1 using Telnet (Start->Run: "telnet 9.1.8.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration Unit’s Configuration If radio settings are done properly and units can physically "hear" each other, the units will exchange a series of service packets and establish a connection. In order to check it, one should use a command "mint map". Also, the following configurations may be made in our particular PTP scenario: » Set up a name for a network node (from MINT standpoint). Example: mint rf5.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.2 Learning Connection Status Learning Connection Status Once all configuration steps are correctly performed you should make sure that the connection is established. Please keep in mind that once MINT protocol is working on MAC-layer (2nd layer of OSI) IP-connectivity needs to be configured after link connectivity is established. Actually, it makes no sense to connect antennas to the devices while lab testing but still you need to make them "hear" each other.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration Learning Connection Status For lower bitrates (equal or less than 52 Mbps) signal levels higher than 12-14 dB can be considered acceptable. For higher bitrates it is recommended to have higher signal levels (>20 dB) in order to have a stable connection on this bitrate and less retries and errors 3 Type of node: master or slave. In order to create PTP link, one unit should be "master" and another one "slave".
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.3 Providing IP Connectivity Providing IP Connectivity Once we have connected our two units in a Point-to-Point link, the next step is to configure IP-connectivity. Units can be configured in either router or switch mode or even in hybrid mode combining router and switch functionality. In this manual we will review two most simple cases of link configuration in router and switch mode. 3.3.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration Providing IP Connectivity #2> arip start Then enter ARIP router configuration mode: #2> arip RIP> configure RIP(config)# router And involve all the unit's interfaces in routing: RIP(config-router)# network eth0 RIP(config-router)# network rf5.0 To configure static routing: On each unit, e.g. on the second unit, which has 8.1.2.6/24 address on eth0 (Ethernet) and 10.10.10.2/30 on the radio interface (rf5.0) the command will look as follows: route add 8.1.1.0/24 10.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 1 Providing IP Connectivity Write a route to the corresponding Ethernet network at the opposite side of the link. In order to do this, go "Start->Run" and run "cmd" - Command Line. At the computer connected to the first unit you should write the following: route add 8.1.2.0 mask 255.255.255.0 8.1.1.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.3.1.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration Providing IP Connectivity Figure 3-5: Second Device Alvarion BreezeNET B130/B300 GigE 34 Quick Start Guide
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.3.2 Providing IP Connectivity Switched Link MINT architecture has an ability of using switching capabilities. Switch, realized in the units, is a very powerful tool that can be used in many different scenarios but in this particular example we will be using it for one simple purpose - create a simple switched link. The following steps should be taken: 1 Configure IP-addresses (e.g. on eth0 interface) from the same subnet. Say, 9.1.8.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.3.2.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration Providing IP Connectivity Figure 3-7: Second Device Alvarion BreezeNET B130/B300 GigE 37 Quick Start Guide
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration 3.4 Link Throughput Test Link Throughput Test The most evident way to test link throughput is to install FTP server on either first or second computer. During link throughput test using PC or Laptop with MS Windows please note the following: 1 Hard disk drive speed or Ethernet adaptor speed may become a bottleneck of the system at either side. 2 In MS Windows you need to run several (3 or more) TCP or UDP streams to load up the radio link.
Chapter 3 - Point-to-Point Configuration Link Throughput Test Figure 3-8: Load Meter Utility Alvarion BreezeNET B130/B300 GigE 39 Quick Start Guide
Chapter 4 Performing Outdoor Testing
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing In This Chapter: “Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure” on page 42 Before carrying out outdoor testing make sure that the equipment is properly configured and tested in the lab. If you use outdoor equipment please prepare service cables to connect IDU and ODU and check them in the lab.
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing 4.1 Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure In order to install the equipment, please do the following: 1 Install ODU and antenna at the roof top/mast etc. Connect ODU and antenna using RF cable. If the link is just for testing usage make sure that it is not going to rain or snow (because in this case you do not have to seal the connectors).
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing 4.1.1 Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure Antenna Alignment with MINT Monitor NOTE It is recommended to use "Antenna alignment with Link test" procedure instead of "Antenna alignment with MINT Monitor" procedure. 1 On the unit run mint IFNAME monitor. Run it only from ONE side. The command looks as follows (example): mint rf5.
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure and higher) signal levels of 30 dB and higher should be achieved for a reliable link » Low or zero repeats and errors. Please use "muf stat" command to see statistics on errors. "muf stat clear" command clears the statistics. Figure 4-2: “muf stat” Command Output » Link stability.
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure Also, important to remember that "mint monitor" command is a passive command and does not generate any traffic. Thus, it is recommended to put some load on the link while using "mint monitor" 4 Interference can be a possible reason for the link quality degradation (number of repeats increases, lower signal levels due to higher noise levels or other equipment working in the same area). 4.1.
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure This command illustrates the simplest way to start link test. "lt" command with all parameters undefined (default parameters) starts test of a local device with a remote device which have "00179AC2F3E6" MAC-address. 2 Antenna alignment should be done only from one side at one time. Align one side, than other side. Use mobile phones to check current signal levels.
Chapter 4 - Performing Outdoor Testing Learning Link Status/Antenna Alignment Procedure and higher) signal levels of 30 dB and higher should be achieved for a reliable link » Low or zero number of retries, undelivered packets and acks ("rt%", "up%", "ua%" columns). » Link stability. Please check the continuity of all the values in the statistics output of "ltest" command. Keep in mind that the antenna alignment should be performed slowly and with pauses.
