Users Manual

50 MDS™ Master Station MDS 05-6399A01, Rev. G
• MAC Retries – If a message is not acknowledged after transmission it will be resent. This
value controls how many times the radio attempts to resend the message before discarding
it.
• Time to Live – When a message arrives from the payload interface(s) it is time-stamped
and queued for radio transmission. If the radio cannot transmit the message before the
Time-to-Live (TTL) value (in seconds), the message is discarded. This helps prevent stale
or old data from being sent over the air.
• SAF Network (Access Point only) – If this device is in use in a Store-And-Forward
network, enable this option.
• Repeater Network (Access Point only) – If this device is in use in a repeater network,
enable this option.
• Payload 1/2 Inter Packet Gap – The inter-packet gap is a timing setting in ms used to
delimit a packet on the serial interface. Too short of a time can cause serial streams to be
combined into one large packet instead of two smaller ones. Too long of a time can slow
down the communications channel.
• Transparent Rx Timeout – This setting is similar to the timing parameters for Payload
1/2 Inter-Packet Gap, but it applies to data received over-the-air. It tells the radio how to
build an Ethernet packet based on a transparent data stream received over the radio
channel.
• Peer to Peer
• Access Point Options:
- Peer to Peer Enabled – If enabled, the AP will allow enabled peers to send traf-
fic through the AP to other enabled peers by rebroadcasting their transmissions to
all other remotes in the system.
- Ethernet Rebroadcast Type – When rebroadcasting peer-to-peer Ethernet traf-
fic, only the selected type of traffic will be rebroadcast to other remotes on the
network.
• Remote Options:
- Rebroadcast Serial – If enabled, serial traffic originating from this device will be
rebroadcast by the AP to other remotes in the network. The AP must have peer-
to-peer rebroadcasting enabled.
- Rebroadcast Ethernet – If enabled, Ethernet traffic originating from this device
will be rebroadcast by the AP to other remotes in the network. The AP must have
peer-to-peer rebroadcasting enabled.
Remote Detection Service
When enabled, the unit uses DLINK messages to detect connected remote radios. Detected re-
motes are displayed in a table.
• Enabled – Enables the remote detection service. Default FALSE.
• Mode – Options are Passive or Silent (Default Passive).
- Passive – This mode broadcasts passive DLINK messages when there is other data to
be sent. This causes no interruption to data on the network, but the remote radio will