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airPoint™ Nexus
sB3210

User Guide

Version 1.0
Copyright © smartBridges Pte Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

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  • Page 1: User Guide

    Nexus sB3210 User Guide Version 1.0 Copyright © smartBridges Pte Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT ... 3 OVERVIEW OF USER GUIDE ... 3 RELATED PUBLICATIONS ... 3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT CENTER ... 4 INTRODUCTION... 5 1.1. ™ N OINT EXUS 1.2. YSTEM EQUIREMENTS 1.3..6 HECKLISTS AIRPOINT CONFIGURATION... 10 2.1.

  • Page 3: About This Document

    About This Document This User Guide is for the networking professional who configures and manages the smartBridges’ Intelligent Nexus Platform of wireless access points (airPoint It provides detailed information on using the web-based configuration GUI to configure the airPoint™ Nexus unit. This manual will help you gain a better understanding of how the various components of Nexus work.

  • Page 4: Technical Support Center

    To access the technical support resources, please visit the support center website at http://www.smartbridges.com/support/ You will need to register for certain services and downloads on the smartBridges support center website. airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide...

  • Page 5: Introduction

    1. Introduction This User Guide provides information on how to set-up the features and deploy the airPoint unit. A web-based management tool is provided to assist the user in configuring the airPoint unit for different purposes. 1.1. airPoint™ Nexus Configuration Features The airPoint web-based management tool provides the user with the following features: System Parameters Device Mode Operation...

  • Page 6: Checklists

    Yes/No Feet/Meters Yes/No For example, to achieve Long distance/LOS etc Numbers Mbps Miles/Km Parabolic/sector smartBridges/Name of other manufacturer Horizontal/Vertical Horizontal - deg Vertical – deg LMR 400/LMR600/ p l a t f o r m Site A Site B Page 6 of 55...
  • Page 7 MAC address of airPoint™ Configured for pre installation testing Ping response Ping Success Rate Throughput test for upload bandwidth Note Economical One radio model (sB3210) 15 Mbps data throughput and 20 miles (30 km) range Signature of Engineer: Name: Email: Date: airPoint™...
  • Page 8 Radio operations Mode SSID of a Radio IP address Link Quality RSSI Channel selected for Link Radio Tx Output Power Model of smartBridges airPoint™ equipment selected for a link. Antenna Type Antenna Mfg. Gain of antenna Antenna Polarization Beam width of antenna Antenna Gain airPoint™...
  • Page 9 Signature of Engineer: Name: Email: Installation Date: Commissioned Date: latest information http://www.smartbridges.com/ airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s Units Yes/No Yes/No Yes/No...

  • Page 10: Airpoint Configuration

    4. A user login box will appear. Enter the ’User name’ and ’Password’ and check the ’Remember my password’ checkbox if you want the system to remember the password. The default User name is Administrator and the password is smartBridges (case sensitive). 5. Click the ’OK’ button 6.
  • Page 11 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Figure 2-2 License Agreement Page Figure 2-3 Nexus Summary Information Page The page information descriptions are provided in the table on the following page: airPoint™...

  • Page 12: Web Gui Administrator Password Change

    2.2. Web GUI Administrator Password Change By default the administrator password is smartBridges (case sensitive). Follow the steps below to change the Administrator password. 1. Click on the ’Tools | User Manager’ drop down menu in the navigation menu bar. An ’Administrator Password change’...

  • Page 13: Page

    i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m 2.3. Using the Configuration Pages The airPoint™ Nexus configuration system comprises several pages for configuring each parameter. A common navigation menu bar is provided at the top of each page for easy navigation as shown in the figure below.
  • Page 14 Figure 2-6 Editable Boxes for Parameter Editing The Navigation menu bar contains menu items that allow user to go to different configuration pages. The following table summarizes functionalities available for the menu item links. Menu Item Menu Sub-items Home Summary Info Networking Bridge Configuration Traffic Statistics...
  • Page 15 Menu Item Menu Sub-items Radio Main Security airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s Description Wireless Traffic Statistics: Displays the Wireless Traffic Statistics. Allows the user to set the security mode: 1.
  • Page 16 Menu Item Menu Sub-items Tools System Configuration airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s Description System Name: Allows user to change the name of the airPoint™...
  • Page 17 Information on Technical Support Link to online User Guide Allows user to register product and provide feedback or suggestions. Check on smartBridges website for any software updates. General system description, software version information. p l a t f o r m...

  • Page 18: Air Point Bridge Configuration Parameters

    2.4. airPoint™ Bridge Configuration Parameters This section explains how to configure the following parameters for airPoint Bridge: Ethernet, Wireless and Bridge Spanning Tree Protocol. 2.4.1. Ethernet Configurations The Ethernet (wired-side) parameters need to be configured for the management of the airPoint Bridge device.
  • Page 19 6. Choose a radio channel to associate with the client. 7. Choose the data rate. 8. Select the transmit power of the radio from Dial in Power drop down menu 9. Select the gain of the antenna from the drop down menu according to the gain of the antenna used with the equipment.

  • Page 20: Onfiguration

    Page Items Descriptions Rates This indicates the current rate at which the radio is operating, which can be set as desired by the user. Auto Rate Fallback Allows radio to fall back to lower data rate. Dial a Power Dial a Power is used to set the output power of the radio at the N Connector.
  • Page 21 Page Item Descriptions Preamble Settings a) Shows current value b) Choose other settings available from pull-down menu The radio preamble is a section of data at the head of a packet that contains information the airPoint™ Device and Remote devices need when sending and receiving packets.

  • Page 22: Bridge Configuration

    2.5. Bridge Configuration In Bridge mode the airPoint™ unit acts as a transparent bridge between the Radio and the Ethernet interfaces. The figure below shows the bridge configuration and the bridge forwarding table information. The STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) is disabled by default. Figure 2-10 Bridge Configuration Information 2.6.
  • Page 23 Setting Default Value Bridge forward delay Ethernet port (ETH A) path cost Ethernet port (ETH A) priority Ethernet port (ETH B) path cost Ethernet port (ETH B) priority Radio port (Radio A) path cost Radio port (Radio A) priority airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s Range...
  • Page 24 The Radio and Ethernet interfaces are assigned to bridge group by default. When the user enables STP and assigns a priority on bridge, STP is enabled on the radio and Ethernet interfaces. The interfaces adopt the priority assigned to bridge. The user can edit STP Priority, Bridge Max age, Bridge hello time, Forward Delay, STP Port priority and STP Port Path cost.
  • Page 25 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Figure 2-11 Bridge Configuration airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide Page 25 of 55...

  • Page 26: Security

    3. Security The Security Configuration page allows the client devices to authenticate with the airPoint™ unit by using different security modes. Follow the steps below to configure the airPoint™ unit with Security Parameters: 1. Click the Security link from the ‘Radio Main’ page. 2.
  • Page 27 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Figure 3-1 Radio Security Page with WDS entries added 3) Internal ACL (Access Control List) Mode: The user needs to provide the ACL MAC addresses or WDS addresses of the clients that can get associated with the airPoint Bridge.
  • Page 28 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Figure 3-2 Internal ACL with WEP disabled If the WEP key is enabled, the configuration page for Internal ACL will be as follows: Figure 3-3 Internal ACL with WEP enabled airPoint™...
  • Page 29 4) External ACL(Radius) & Internal ACL: This mode allows the user to use an External Radius as well as an Internal ACL for client authentication. The entry in the Internal ACL has more precedence than the External ACL table (WDS entries still need to be local).
  • Page 30 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Encryption type is TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol). Figure 3-5 WPA radius page 6) WPA-PSK: In this mode, a client needs to be capable of WPA-PSK.

  • Page 31: Traffic Statistics

    i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m 4. Traffic Statistics The Wireless and Ethernet Traffic Statistics can be displayed by clicking on the ‘Networking’ | ‘Statistics’...

  • Page 32: Tools

    i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m 5. Tools 5.1.1. System Configuration The System Configuration page provides a one page tool to configure the airPoint™ device. To access the System Configuration page go to ‘Tools’...

  • Page 33: Snmp Security

    Table 5-1 System Configuration Page Item Descriptions Displays name of airPoint™ unit System Name Allows user to change airPoint™ unit name Displays description of airPoint™ unit System Description Allows user to change airPoint™ unit description SNMP Security Access the SNMP security settings Reset Reset device Delayed Reset...

  • Page 34: Reset Options

    Figure 5-2 SNMP Security Configuration Table 5-2 SNMP Security Configuration Page Items Descriptions SNMP Community Display SNMP Community String that is currently used to communicate to the device through SNMP New Community User can change the SNMP Community String by entering a new Community string Confirm Community User must enter the same community string as New Community string to...

  • Page 35: Ntp Time Server Setup

    For delayed reset, follow the steps below: 1. Select date from the calendar that has been provided. 2. Select the recurrence. 3. Click ’Apply Changes’ button to change the settings. 4. If user wants to disable ‘Delayed Reset’, check the box that has been provided. 5.1.4.

  • Page 36: Profile Manager

    5.2. Profile Manager The airPoint™ Nexus configuration parameters can be saved as profiles in the system. There are four profiles available in the system: 1. Installation profile 2. Profile1 3. Profile1 4. Profile3 All the four profiles contain the same default parameters. You can save the current configurations to any of the four profiles and re-load the profiles later on or create different configurations and save them under different profiles.

  • Page 37: Save Profile

    Table 5-3 Profile Manager Menu Items Page Item Descriptions Save As: Select which profile name to save for the current configuration Profile Description: Specify a description for the profile to be saved. Save Profile button Click to save current profile Change Profile To: Select which profile to load as current configuration Profile Description:...

  • Page 38: Load Operating Profile

    5.2.2 Load Operating Profile To load the operating profile: 1. Select a profile to load from the Profile Table: 2. Click the Load Profile button to load the selected profile. Note: Current configuration parameters will be replaced by the new loaded profile. User will be asked to wait while the new profile loads.

  • Page 39: Link Test

    5.3. Link Test The Link Test tools are available from the navigation menu bar ‘Tools’ | ‘Link Test’ drop down menu. From Link Test tools the user can test Throughput and perform Ping Test. You will need to run Radio Transmit or Radio Receive.

  • Page 40: Link Budget Planning

    5.4. Link Budget Planning Link Budget Planning is a very useful tool for link budget estimation. Calculator can be accessed from the navigation menu bar ’Tools| Link Budget Planning Calculator’ drop down menu. A GPS Calculator is provided in the Link Budget Planning Calculator page to calculate the distance between two airPoint™...
  • Page 41 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m 6. The link budget information will be displayed in the following figure. The link budget information EIRP, Free Space Loss and Theoretical RSSI are computed and displayed.

  • Page 42: Firmware Upgrade

    6. Firmware Upgrade New firmware for airPoint™ Nexus is available for download from smartBridges Support web-site: http://www.smartbridges.com/support/ The airPoint™ Nexus device firmware can be upgraded from the web management interface. Follow the steps below to upgrade the airPoint™ Nexus firmware: 1.
  • Page 43 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Figure 6-3 Successful upgrade pop-up window airPoint™ Nexus User Configuration Guide Page 43 of 55...

  • Page 44: Appendix A: Configuration Of The Radius Server

    i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m Appendix A: Configuration of the Radius Server FreeRADIUS/WinXP Authentication Setup This document describes how to build a FreeRADIUS server for TLS and PEAP authentication, and how to configure the Windows XP clients (supplicants).
  • Page 45 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m make > mymake.log 2>&1 If you encounter problems, you can review mymake.log (or myconfig.log, or myinstall.log) for errors. b.
  • Page 46 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m # The extensions to add to a certificate request [ req_distinguished_name ] countryName = Country Name (2 letter code) countryName_default = US countryName_min = 2 countryName_max = 2...
  • Page 47 For TLS and PEAP, the server needs root.pem and cert-srv.pem. For TLS, the Windows XP client needs root.der and cert-clt.p12. For PEAP, the Windows XP client needs root.der. In the event that you want to use TLS authentication with multiple clients, Document 3 provides the needed script.
  • Page 48 dh_file = /usr/local/radius/etc/1x/dh random_file = /usr/local/radius/etc/1x/random fragment_size = 1024 include_length = yes No other changes are needed in radiusd.conf for TLS. d. Server Certificates, DH File, and Random File – we added a new directory 1x in the radius etc directory, and then copied the server certificates (root.pem and cert-srv.pem) into the directory.
  • Page 49 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m At the RADIUS tab for authentication: Active = Yes Server IP = 192.168.1.10 Port Number = 1812 Shared Secret = AP_Shared_Secret 6.
  • Page 50 Change the default_eap_type from tls to peap: eap { default_eap_type = peap Move to the PEAP section below the TLS section and uncomment the following lines: peap { default_eap_type = mschapv2 The server is now ready for PEAP authentication. 8. Change Windows XP for PEAP On the Wireless Network tab, select the network and click Configure to open the network properties.

  • Page 51: Appendix B - Useful Terms And Definitions

    Appendix B - Useful terms and definitions Abbreviations Media Access Control RSSI Receive Signal Sensitivity Indication SSID Service Set Identifier DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Access Control List SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol Network Time Protocol Spanning Tree Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol 802.11h The 802.11h specification is an addition to the 802.11 family of standards for wireless local area...
  • Page 52 then forwards the encrypted frame to its destination. The encrypted data frames are sent with the MAC header WEP bit set. Thus, the receiver knows to use the shared WEP key to decrypt the payload and recover the original frame. The new frame, with an unencrypted payload can then be passed to an upper layer protocol.
  • Page 53 i n t e l l i g e n t w i r e l e s s p l a t f o r m SNMP Short for Simple Network Management Protocol, a set of protocols for managing complex networks. The first versions of SNMP were developed in the early 80s.

  • Page 54: Appendix C - Snmp Trap

    Appendix C - SNMP Trap The airPoint™ Nexus generates SNMP trap that can be forwarded to the SNMP Trap server. The SNMP Trap server IP address is set in section. The following table provides a list of SNMP traps generated. Trap Message IP address...

  • Page 55: Appendix D - License

    Appendix D – License airPoint™ Nexus is Copyright © 2004-2005 by smartBridges. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1.

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