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7.11 Fluidmesh Wi-Fi Access Point

Firmware 6.5 and above feature an embedded Wi-Fi access point (AP) that works together with the

standard Fluidmesh mesh interface. The purpose of the embedded Wi-Fi AP is mainly site

maintenance and service. By enabling the Wi-Fi AP, it will be possible to connect to the Fluidmesh

radios with a standard PC or laptop equipped with a Wi-Fi NIC card. To avoid impacting the

performance of the mesh interface, the Wi-Fi access point bandwidth is limited to 5 Mb/s. This can be

enough for maintenance, browsing the network and, in this case, for pulling one camera video. Figure

7.15 reports the configuration page for the Wi-Fi AP. The AP can be enable/disable by clicking on the

relative box. By selecting the parameter “Disable SSID Broadcasting”, the user can hide the visibility

of the AP by preventing the AP from broadcasting the specified SSID. “AP Security” indicates the

encryption mechanism used by the AP to encrypt the communication to and from the clients using the

encryption secret “AP Passphrase”. Finally, DHCP parameters must be specified so that the client

could be assigned with a proper IP address automatically during the association phase. Please note

that for each Fluidmesh radio in the network, the Wi-Fi AP, if enabled, should be configured using a

different DHCP IP class so as to avoid IP conflicts between associated clients to different Wi-Fi APs.

Figure 7.15: Wi-Fi Access Point Configuration Page

7.12 Static Routes

The static routes page can be used to set static routing rules in the radio unit. This option is especially

useful with the Wi-Fi AP enabled to allow the connected clients, i) to access other Fluidmesh radios /

client devices in the network and, ii) to reach gateways (i.e. Internet gateways).

7.13 SNMP

The SNMP page can be used to configure the SNMPv2c service to run on the unit. Both walkthrough

and traps operations are supported. In case you are enabling traps on the unit, the SNMP will

periodically send out monitoring information to the specified server IP address (NMS hostname) at a