User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Mesh Point CLI and Administrative Access
- Chapter 3 Networking and Radio Configuration
- 3.1 Network Interfaces
- 3.2 Network Bridging
- 3.2.1 Bridging Configuration
- 3.2.2 FastPath Mesh Bridging
- 3.2.3 Fine-tuning FastPath Mesh Network Performance
- 3.2.3.1 Selecting the FastPath Mesh Multicast Transmit Mode
- 3.2.3.2 Setting the FastPath Mesh Packet Interval
- 3.2.3.3 Setting the FastPath Mesh Transmit Control Level
- 3.2.3.4 Setting Multicast Video Clamping Thresholds
- 3.2.3.5 Setting Mesh Routing Reactivity
- 3.2.3.6 Setting Mesh Packet Time To Live
- 3.2.3.7 Viewing Current Mesh Performance Parameters
- 3.2.3.8 Frame Processor Parameters
- 3.2.4 STP Bridging
- 3.3 Global Radio Settings
- 3.4 Individual Radio Settings
- 3.4.1 Radio Band, Short Preamble, Guard Interval
- 3.4.2 Channel Selection
- 3.4.3 Distance, Beacon Interval, Noise Immunity
- 3.4.4 Network Type, Antenna Gain, Tx Power
- 3.4.5 MIMO
- 3.4.6 STBC
- 3.4.7 Channel Lock and Other Channel Selection Features
- 3.4.8 DFS, TDWR, and Channel Exclusion
- 3.4.9 Radio BSS Settings
- 3.4.9.1 BSS Radio, BSS Name and SSID
- 3.4.9.2 WDS Bridging or AP Infrastructure Configuration
- 3.4.9.3 BSS State, SSID Advertising and Drop Probe Requests
- 3.4.9.4 BSS STA Idle Timeout and 802.11g-Only Settings
- 3.4.9.5 BSS Unicast Transmission Rate Settings
- 3.4.9.6 BSS WMM QoS Setting
- 3.4.9.7 BSS Fragmentation and RTS Thresholds
- 3.4.9.8 BSS DTIM Beacon Countdown
- 3.4.9.9 BSS VLANs Settings
- 3.4.9.10 BSS Fortress Security Zone
- 3.4.9.11 FastPath Mesh BSS Cost Offset
- 3.4.9.12 BSS Multicast Settings
- 3.4.9.13 Bridging MTU and Beacon Encryption
- 3.4.9.14 BSS Description
- 3.4.9.15 BSS Wi-Fi Security Configuration
- 3.4.10 Antenna Tracking / Rate Monitoring
- 3.4.11 ES210 Mesh Point STA Settings and Operation
- 3.4.11.1 STA Radio, Name, SSID and SSID Roaming
- 3.4.11.2 STA State
- 3.4.11.3 STA Unicast Transmission Rate Settings
- 3.4.11.4 STA Background Scanning
- 3.4.11.5 STA WMM QoS Setting
- 3.4.11.6 STA Fragmentation and RTS Thresholds
- 3.4.11.7 STA Multicast Rate
- 3.4.11.8 STA Description
- 3.4.11.9 STA Wi-Fi Security Configuration
- 3.4.11.10 Editing or Deleting a STA Interface Connection
- 3.4.11.11 Establishing a STA Interface Connection
- 3.4.11.12 ES210 Station Access Control Lists
- 3.5 Local Area Network Configuration
- 3.6 Time and Location Configuration
- 3.7 GPS and Location Configuration
- 3.8 DHCP and DNS Services
- 3.9 Ethernet Interfaces
- 3.10 Quality of Service
- 3.11 VLANs Implementation
- 3.12 ES210 Mesh Point Serial Port Settings
- 3.13 Mesh Viewer Protocol Settings
- Chapter 4 Network Security, Authentication and Auditing
- 4.1 Fortress Security Settings
- 4.1.1 Operating Mode
- 4.1.2 FIPS Settings
- 4.1.3 MSP Encryption Algorithm
- 4.1.4 Encrypted Data Compression
- 4.1.5 MSP Key Establishment
- 4.1.6 MSP Re-Key Interval
- 4.1.7 Key Beacon Interval
- 4.1.8 Fortress Legacy Devices
- 4.1.9 Encrypted Zone Cleartext Traffic
- 4.1.10 Encrypted Zone Management Settings
- 4.1.11 Authorized Wireless Client Management Settings
- 4.1.12 Turning Mesh Point GUI Access Off and On
- 4.1.13 SSH Access to the Mesh Point CLI
- 4.1.14 Blackout Mode
- 4.1.15 Allow Cached Credentials
- 4.1.16 Fortress Access ID
- 4.2 Digital Certificates
- 4.3 Access Control Entries
- 4.4 Internet Protocol Security
- 4.5 Authentication and Timeouts
- 4.5.1 Authentication Servers
- 4.5.2 Internal Authentication Server
- 4.5.2.1 Basic Internal Authentication Server Settings
- 4.5.2.2 Certificate Authority Settings
- 4.5.2.3 Global User and Device Authentication Settings
- 4.5.2.4 Local 802.1X Authentication Settings
- 4.5.2.5 OCSP Authentication Server Settings
- 4.5.2.6 OCSP Cache Settings and Management
- 4.5.2.7 Internal Authentication Server Access Control Lists
- 4.5.3 User Authentication
- 4.5.4 Client Device Authentication
- 4.5.5 Session Idle Timeouts
- 4.6 ACLs and Cleartext Devices
- 4.7 Remote Audit Logging
- 4.8 Wireless Schedules
- 4.1 Fortress Security Settings
- Chapter 5 System Options, Maintenance and Licensing
- Chapter 6 System and Network Monitoring
- Index
- Glossary
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Networking and Radio Configuration 27
Network Interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Network Bridging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bridging Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
FastPath Mesh Bridging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Multicast Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring Neighbor Cost Overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Fine-tuning FastPath Mesh Network Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Selecting the FastPath Mesh Multicast Transmit Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting the FastPath Mesh Packet Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Setting the FastPath Mesh Transmit Control Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting Multicast Video Clamping Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting Mesh Routing Reactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setting Mesh Packet Time To Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Viewing Current Mesh Performance Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Frame Processor Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
STP Bridging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Global Radio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Country Code and Regulatory Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Environment Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Unit of Distance Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Radio Frequency Kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Channel Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Individual Radio Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Radio Band, Short Preamble, Guard Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Channel Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Distance, Beacon Interval, Noise Immunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Network Type, Antenna Gain, Tx Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
MIMO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
STBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Channel Lock and Other Channel Selection Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
DFS, TDWR, and Channel Exclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Dynamic Frequency Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Licensed TDWR Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Channel Exclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Radio BSS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
BSS Radio, BSS Name and SSID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
WDS Bridging or AP Infrastructure Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
BSS State, SSID Advertising and Drop Probe Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
BSS STA Idle Timeout and 802.11g-Only Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
BSS Unicast Transmission Rate Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
BSS WMM QoS Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
BSS Fragmentation and RTS Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
BSS DTIM Beacon Countdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
BSS VLANs Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65