GE MDS SD4A Technical Manual page 52

Packet Settings
Media Access
Control
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Radio Mode
• —The radio can operate in one of several modes. The
available selections are: Packet, Packet with MAC, x710, and
Transparent.
User Interface
• —This parameter selects the method of radio man-
agement. The default selection is
screens shown in this manual. Alternatively, you may select
which switches the radio to a Command Line Interface. With a
CLI interface, commands are entered in text-based fashion, as
described in the SD Serial/Telnet Management Supplement, Part
No. 05-6193A01 more information.
COM1/COM2 Port Inter-Packet Gap
•
packet on the serial interface for radios operating in Packet Mode.
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 effectively slow down the communications channel. The
Inter-Packet Gap is specified by the number of character times
(the time it takes to send an individual character).
Transparent RX Timeout (ms)
•
COM1/COM2 Inter-Packet Gap
parameters for
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.
Device Type
• —Selects
Access Point serves as the Controller of the RF network. Only one
radio is configured as an AP. Typically this is the "polling mas-
ter." A Remote is connected to end devices in the field (e.g. PLC,
RTU), and there can be any number of these in a network. Each
SD Series Technical Manual
Menu
, which presents the type of
—Timing setting used to delimit a
—This setting is similar to the timing
, but it applies to data
Access Point Remote
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CLI
,
Store and Forward
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