User's Manual
58 MDS Master Station MDS 05-6399A01, Rev. D
connection to the application and transmit the payload data. These connections are not persistent, and as
such must be established for each transmission. Unlike TCP, transmissions are not guaranteed when using
the UDP protocol; however UDP has a far smaller network overhead than TCP, and as such will result in
lower latency.
UDP specific configuration options include:
Local IP Port – The UDP port number that the server will listen for connections on.
IPv4 Bind IP – If the Master Station is configured with multiple IP interfaces; you can specify
that the IP Payload service only will listen for connections on one of the IP
addresses of the system. This is useful in VLAN configurations where you wish
to only make the IP Payload server available on a specific VLAN in the system.
Server IP Address – The IP address of the server the Master Station is to connect to.
Remote IP Port – The UDP port that the server is listening on.
5.6.5.1.7 Maintenance
The maintenance sub-menu allows the operator to perform maintenance tasks on both the Master Station
itself as well as the connected SD radios.
5.6.5.1.8 AlarmConfiguration
From this menu, you can control which of the various alarms that can be generated on the SD NIC will be
propagated up to the platform manager for system logging. All alarms default to being enabled, and
should remain enabled unless there is an explicit need to disable one.
5.6.5.1.9 RFKeyTest
Using the RF Key Test action, the active radio can be manually keyed (transmitter enabled) or de-keyed
(transmitter disabled). This may be useful when diagnosing signal-strength on a remote receiver.