Primary Responder Mode; Differences Between Standard Firmware Operation And Primary Responder Mode; Enable Primary Responder Mode - Digi TX40 User Manual

Firmware configuration
Feature
Monitoring
Serial port

Primary Responder mode

You can use the Primary Responder mode configuration setting to manually enable the TX40 device to
be in an AT&T FirstNet-compliant mode (Primary Responder mode). When a device is in Primary
Responder mode, certain firmware features are disabled. See
operation and Primary Responder
Disable Primary Responder Mode
If you enable Primary Responder mode and then disable it, the device's configuration is erased and
the device will reboot. You will then need to reconfigure the device to the desired configuration.
Differences between standard firmware operation and Primary
Responder mode
The device firmware version 23.9 and later has a Primary Responder mode that can be enabled on any
device. When enabled, the device acts as a Primary Responder (PR) device with a security hardened,
feature-restricted firmware targeted to comply with AT&T FirstNet and Verizon ResponseVerify
security requirements.
When Primary Responder mode is enabled, the following features are not available:
Telnet access has been removed.
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Raw TCP listeners for serial ports have been removed.
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Wi-Fi:
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WPA1 encryption has been removed.
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Preconfigured access points are disabled by default.
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Enable Primary Responder mode

You can manually enable the Primary Responder mode configuration setting to change your device to
Primary Responder mode.
TX40 User Guide
Configuration
Enabled for local administration
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Firewall zone: Internal
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Device heath metrics uploaded to Digi Remote Manager at 60 minute
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interval.
SNMP: Disabled
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n Enabled
n Serial mode: Login
Label: None
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Baud rate: 115000
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n Data bits: 8
n Parity: None
n Stop bits: 1
Flow control: None
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mode.
Primary Responder mode
Differences between standard firmware
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