User's Manual

50 MDS Master Station MDS 05-6399A01, Rev. D
From the SD Config menu, all SD related configuration options can be specified. Primary SD network
configuration can be found under the ‘Radio Config’ menu. IP Payload service configuration can be
found under the ‘IP Payload’ menu. Local and remote device maintenance can be found under the
‘Maintenance’ menu.
Members – The Master Station (sdms) interface is a logical interface that is composed of one or more
physical SD interface cards (sd-nic). The ‘members’ configuration item is the mapping between the
logical sdms interface, and the physical sd-nic cards.
This is factory configured to contain SD radio cards in slot 1 and slot 2 of the Master Station. If the
Master Station is a non-redundant system with only 1 radio card, this will contain only ‘sd-1/0/0’.
5.6.5.1.1 BasicSettings
The Basic Settings contains important RF and modem selections for radio operation.
Radio Mode – The radio can operate in one of several modes. The available selections are:
Packet – With and without AES Encryption
Packet w/MAC – With and without AES Encryption