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Intermec 6910 Technical Documentation Manual

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  • Page 1 Technical Documentation 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System...
  • Page 2 The information contained herein is proprietary and is provided solely for the purpose of allowing customers to operate and service Intermec manufactured equipment and is not to be released, reproduced, or used for any other purpose without written permission of Intermec.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    ............... 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation .
  • Page 4 Contents 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 5: Before You Begin

    Intermec support services organization. In the U.S. call 1-800-755-5505, and in Canada call 1-800-668-7043. If you live outside of the U.S. or Canada, you can find your local Intermec support services organization on the Intermec Web site at www.intermec.com.

  • Page 6: Warnings, Cautions, And Notes

    Terminology Term access point end device 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation Description These terms describe any of the MobileLAN access 21XX products, including the 2100, the 2101, the 2102, the 2102S, and the 2106 unless specifically stated otherwise.

  • Page 7: Format Conventions For Input From A Keyboard Or Keypad

    Diagnostic Port Cable The part number for the diagnostic port cable is P/N: 070268. This cable is needed for the configuration of the 6910 IGAP or the 6910 TGAP. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation Description Shows the command as you should enter it into the device.

  • Page 8: Global Services And Support

    Visit our Web site at http://www.intermec.com to download many of our current manuals in PDF format. Visit our technical knowledge base (Knowledge Central) at http://intermec.custhelp.com to review technical information or to request technical help for all Intermec products. viii 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 9: Hyperterminal Settings To Access 6910 Menu

    2 Select Call → Disconnect or click the Disconnect icon to disconnect the call and access the Configuration menu. 3 Select File → Properties, then click Configure ..6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 10 S Flow Control: 5 Tap the Settings tab, then select “VT100” from the Emulation drop- down list. Click OK to exit the 6910 Settings. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation 9600 None None (no hardware)
  • Page 11 6910 IGAP or 6910 TGAP. 7 Connect the diagnostic port cable (P/N: 070268) from your desktop PC to the Diagnostic Port on the 6910 IGAP or 6910 TGAP. Plug in the power cord to the 6910. The boot-up process begins.

  • Page 12: Accessing The Rom Monitor Menu

    3 At the “ap>” prompt, type “view,” in all lowercase letters, then press [Enter], to access the AP commands. When the commands appear, you can perform what functions are needed. ap>view_ 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 13: Accessing The 6910 Configuration Menu

    → HyperTerminal to access the HyperTerminal application. 2 Select Call → Disconnect or click the Disconnect icon to disconnect the call. 3 Select File → Properties, then click Configure ..6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 14 4 Set the properties to the following, then click OK to exit. S Baud Rate: S Data Bits: S Parity: S Stop Bits: S Flow Control: 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation 9600 Even None (no hardware)
  • Page 15 Note: This is case-sensitive, do not enter spaces between characters. There is a one-second timeout period between Characters. If you wait more than one second to type the next character, the 6910 IGAP or 6910 TGAP will not recognize the command. If you type the wrong character, you cannot use the backspace key to correct it.
  • Page 16 “Password:” prompt. Press [Enter] to access the configuration menu. Note that your entry will not be visible. CR52401 You can do any of the command functions shown in the following screen: 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 17: 6910 Configuration Menus

    [Enter] to go to that menu. >view_ See the following pages for each of the menu options: S Gateway (page 10) S TCP/IP (page 14) S Bridge (page 18) S Security (page 27) 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 18: Gateway Main Menu

    [Esc] key to go back to the Main Menu on page 9. S Name: This is an arbitrary name that identifies the 6910 IGAP or 6910 TGAP. Wireless stations use this name to connect to this gateway/access point. Note that this name is not your application’s host server name.
  • Page 19 6710 Access Point. S [Async Parms] Select this option to go to the Gateway Asynchronous Parameters menu. Information on this menu starts on the next page. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 20: Gateway Asynchronous Parameters Menu

    This sets the data parity. Settings include: None, Even (default), or Odd. S Data Bits: This sets the number of data bits per character. Settings include: 7 (de- fault) or 8. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 21 S Select “Disabled” to have the gateway/access point store only one wireless station message from the host. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 22: Tcp/Ip Main Menu

    Internet, routers drop the data. See the 6710 Mobile Bridge User’s Guide or the 6710 Access Point User’s Guide for more information about DHCP. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation 172.16.h.h...
  • Page 23 Note: The IP address of the router is required only if this 6710 Mobile Bridge or 6710 Access Point will communicate with devices on the oth- er side of the router. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation First Address Last Address 172.16.8.1...
  • Page 24 The 6710 Mobile Bridge or the 6710 Access Point responds only to ad- dress offers from DHCP or Bootp servers. In either case the server is specified in the DHCP server name field. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 25 Bridges or 6710 Access Points should not be allowed to expire. The net- work management program would then need to ping all potential ad- dresses on a subnet to locate active IP addresses, or require the user to enter a list. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 26: Bridge Main Menu

    Select this option to go to the Bridge Root menu. Information on this menu starts on page 20. S [Ports] Select this option to go to the Bridge Ports menu. Information on this menu starts on page 25. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 27 Mobile Bridge or 6710 Access Point. This sends more unnecessary ARPs over RS-485 links then delay flooding and does not introduce delays in ARP responses as does the Delay Flooding option. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 28: Bridge Roots Menu

    21. S [Global Flooding] Select this option to go to the Bridge Root Global Flooding menu. In- formation on this menu starts on page 23. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 29: Bridge Roots Global Radio Menu

    S Falcon Frag Size: For reliable transmission, large frames may be fragmented or split into several smaller frames. The receiver reassembles the fragments into a complete frame. Default is 250. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 30 Following are ranges and defaults for this option: Value UHF Rfp Threshold UHF Frag Size Falcon Frag Size Awake Time 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation Range Default 0–250 octets 0–250 octets 0–250 octets 0–255 (tenths of seconds)

  • Page 31: Bridge Roots Global Flooding Menu

    Use your up and down cursor keys to move between fields. Use your left and right cursor keys to scroll through the options for each field. Use the [Esc] key to go back to the Bridge Root main menu on page 20. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 32 Points. This setting allows the super root to control flooding for all 6710 Access Points serving as designated devices for secondary (RS-485) LANs. This setting should be used only if Inbound flooding is set to “Disabled.” 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 33: Bridge Ports Menu

    Option omde omdpxma (or omdpxmb) omdflca (or omdflcb) omduhfb omdip 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation Description Ethernet port WLIF (Proxim 2.4 GHz) radio port Falcon (900 MHz) radio port S-UHF radio port OWL/IP port (IP tunneling)
  • Page 34 PC card slot. See the 6710 Access Point User’s Guide for more information. S [OWL/IP] This only appears if you selected “omdip.” See the 6710 Mobile Bridge User’s Guide or the 6710 Access Point User’s Guide for more information. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 35: Security Main Menu

    6710 Mobile Bridge or 6710 Access Point to a Service Cen- ter to be reconfigured. Contact the Customer Support Center for more information about the service password. See the “Before You Begin” chapter for contact infor- mation. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 36 16 or fewer alphanumeric characters for this password. It is case in- sensitive and can be any combination of letters, numbers, and symbols. For security, the password appears as asterisks on the screen. S Security/Advanced Password and Bridge/Ports/omdip 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 37: Exiting The View Menu

    Exiting the View Menu To exit the View Configuration Menu System, press [Esc] on your key- board until you see the following screen: 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 38 To see the following Configuration Command screen, type any letter, then press [Enter] on your keyboard: 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 39: Troubleshooting

    [?] (Question Mark) key to get HELP topics, just like other access points and controllers. Reflashing Tip: If your initial boot up sequence produces all garbage characters, then the unit needs to be reflashed. 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...

  • Page 40: 6910 Igap Or 6910 Tgap

    6910 IGAP or 6910 TGAP This is an illustration of a 6910 IGAP or a 6910 TGAP: Ports This is an illustration of the ports on the end of a 6910 IGAP or a 6910 TGAP: 10BASE2 100/240 VAC 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation...
  • Page 42 Corporate Headquarters 6001 36th Avenue West Everett, Washington 98203 tel 425.348.2600 fax 425.355.9551 www.intermec.com 6910 Integrated and 6910 Telnet Gateway/Access Points Menu System Technical Documentation - March 2003 *978055004* *978055004*...

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