User's Manual

10 Dust Networks ETERNA2 Regulatory User Guide
Number of links (tx/rx): 14 (2/0)
Neighbors:
-> #1 Q: 28
-> #2 Q: 29
Note: It can take up to 10 minutes for the network to form and will take longer if the manager has been powered up for a
lengthy period of time. For best results power up all devices within a couple of minutes. Mote 1 is always the mote in the
Network Manager and the assignment of motes 2 through 3 are based upon order of joining the network which is not
deterministic. To determine which mote number is which device use the MAC address as a reference:
To force a message to a particular mote enter: ping <mote number> which will look like:
> ping 2
> Sending ping request to mote 2
> Ping response from mote 2, time=900 msec v=3645 t=25
Ping commands that fail will return with a timeout error message:
Ping from mote 2 timed out
Inherently the manager CLI port will generate a notification when a device fails to communicate and falls off the network.
During normal network operation devices are communicating at least every 15 seconds. To reduce dwell time the use of a
script to ping the target device will increase the radio traffic. The traffic rate will be twice the rate of the ping command
being sent. A simple method, uses the windows program TeraTerm Pro. TeraTerm Pro can be downloaded at
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/ttssh2/releases/
. Configure TeraTerm as follows to communicate with the network managers
CLI port with the following steps:
1. Launch TeraTerm