MSR SERIES WIRELESS MESH ROUTER QUICK START GUIDE AOS-v2.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Copyright 2007 Azalea Networks All rights reserved. Printed in China. 2007 Azalea Networks reserves the right to change, modify, revise this publication without notices Trademarks Copyright 2007 by Azalea Networks, Inc. All right reserved. Azalea, the Azalea logo, and MSR1000/MSR2000/MSR4000 are trademarks of Azalea Networks, Inc. All other brand and product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Contents Chapter 1 About this Guide ...................................................................................... 5 Scope............................................................................................................................... 5 Audience ......................................................................................................................... 5 Related Documents ...........................................................
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 List of Figures Figure 1 Sample MSR series Mesh Network............................................................... 6 Figure 2 Logging into Web Management Interface (WMI) ........................................ 8 Figure 3 Web Management Interface Home Page ..................................................... 9 Figure 4 Web Management Interface Home Page ..................................................... 9 Figure 5 Configuring the portal node, step 1 ........
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Chapter 1 About this Guide This chapter covers the following topics: • • • Scope Audience Related Documents Scope This document provides a short tutorial that takes you through some of the basic steps of creating a Wireless Mesh Network using MSR series wireless mesh routers. The simplified instructions and examples use MSR series’ Command Line Interface (CLI) and Web-based Management Interface (WMI).
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Chapter 2 Introducing MSR series The MSR series is a multi-function, wireless mesh router capable of forming a wireless network with end-user devices, other MSR series routers, and a wired network. The MSR series includes the following features: 1. Serving as an Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) for end-user devices such as laptops, PDAs, and Wi-Fi phones 2. Connecting to other MSR series routers to form the backbone of a wireless-mesh network 3.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 access points (AP) for end-user devices that might be around this node. In this example, the SSID for the virtual AP is “Public” and any client device that uses this SSID is connected to node 1. The other radio forms backhaul connections to the two other MSR series nodes, node 2 and node 3. The backhaul connections allow node 1 to send and receive network traffic to and from these other nodes, giving these other nodes an indirect connection to the internet.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Chapter 3 Performing the Quick Start There are two methods of performing the quick start configuration: using the Quick Setup Wizard provided by MSR series’ Web-based Management Interface (WMI), or using the setup command of the router’s Command Line Interface (CLI). Azalea recommends using the Quick Setup Wizard which is accessible from most modern internet browsers such as Internet Explorer.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Figure 3 Web Management Interface Home Page To open the Quick Setup Wizard, click the “Quick Setup” link in the left-side menu tree. The Step 1 of the Quick Setup Wizard appears at the right side of the web page (see Figure 4) Figure 4 Web Management Interface Home Page Using the Quick Setup Wizard To configure a node with the Quick Setup Wizard, answer the questions asked during each step of the wizard.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Example Configuration 1: Portal node The following figures show how the example portal node can be configured by answering the questions on each screen.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Figure 7 Configuring the portal node, step 3 Figure 8 Configuring the portal node, step 4 After the last step of confirming the reboot is performed, the web interface would stop responding for a few seconds while the router reboots itself. Note that since the quick setup changes the IP address of the Ethernet 0 port on the router, you may need to reopen the web interface using the new IP address if you were using Ethernet 0 to connect to the router.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Figure 9 Configuring the point node, step 1 Figure 10 Configuring the point node, step 2 Figure 11 Configuring the point node, step 3 Example Configuration 3: AP node The following figures show how the example AP node can be configured by answering the questions on each screen.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Figure 12 Configuring the AP node, step 1 Figure 13 Configuring the AP node, step 2 Figure 14 Configuring the AP node, step 3 Configuring nodes with the setup CLI command In addition to using the Quick Setup Wizard, users may also perform the same configuration via the CLI’s setup command. The MSR series’ rich Command Line Interface (CLI) allows users to easily set up a new router as a portal, point, or AP node.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Connecting to the CLI Interface An MSR series with the factory default configuration offers three methods of connecting to the CLI: via the serial-port console connection, via Ethernet port fast-Ethernet 0, or via the default wireless SSID. Console Connection The console connection is the most reliable method of accessing the MSR series’ CLI configuration interface.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 A wireless laptop may associate to this default BSS on the MSR series and obtain an IP address from MSR series’ built-in DHCP server. Then, the CLI may be accessed by using SSH to connect to the IP address 172.16.1.1 and entering the default user name and password. A note about Telnet While MSR series do not offer telnet access at shipping time for security reasons, telnet service may be enabled through the CLI.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 The following three examples shows how each of the three routers introduced above are configured using the setup command. Note that by typing “?” after each parameter, one is reminded of the next parameter to enter. However, one could always perform the configuration by specifying the whole command in full.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 NA Set country code for North America (USA and Canada) SG Set country code for Singapore TW Set country code for Taiwan US Set country code for US MSR2000# setup point US ? <1-255> The node-id of this router MSR2000# setup point US 2 ? A.B.C.D The router loopback id MSR2000_1# setup point US 2 192.168.10.2 ? A.B.C.D/M The static IP address/prefix of fast-ethernet 0 MSR2000# setup point US 2 192.168.10.2 192.168.1.2/24 ? MSR2000# setup point US 2 192.168.10.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Note: The above setup does not require users to manually setup any link-level configuration because it uses MSR series’ radio management to automatically discover other nodes and form the network. This feature makes it easy to set up wireless mesh networks; however, it does not allow a fine-grained control of the wireless links, nor does it guarantee the formulation of a fully-connected and converged network every time the routers boots up.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 dns 206.10.10.12,206.10.10.13 ! ! ip dhcp relay disable ! service recovery enable ! router awr enable debug error ! ! service rf-management debug error ! ! service roaming-motrix enable debug information ! ! ip nat enable out-interface fast-ethernet 0 ! snmp-server community public ro snmp-server community private rw ! qos disable class DEFAULT maxbw 300 minbw 50 ! Node 2: Point node MSR2000_2# show running-config hostname MSR2000_2 ! node-id 2 router-id 192.168.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 mode backhaul wds auto ! interface fast-ethernet 0 ip address 192.168.1.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 interface dot11radio 0 wireless-mode g 1 mode access bss Public dhcp server automatic ! interface dot11radio 1 wireless-mode a 36 mode backhaul wds auto ! interface fast-ethernet 0 ip address 192.168.1.3/24 ! interface fast-ethernet 1 shutdown ! ! ip dhcp server enable dns 206.10.10.12,206.10.10.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 If NAT is disabled on the portal router, more configurations are needed for the wirednetwork router (hereby referred to as the LAN router) to which the portal router is connected. The configuration requires extensive knowledge of network routing and is not recommended for novice users. Therefore, disabling NAT is only recommended for advanced network administrators who need a finer control of their network topology.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Radio 1 Wds 0 Remote Node 2 IP 10.10.11.1 Radio 0 Wds 0 Remote Node 1 IP 10.10.11.2 Radio 0 Router 1 Radio 1 Wds 1 Remote Node 3 IP 10.10.13.1 Radio 1 Wds 0 Remote Node 3 IP 10.10.12.1 Radio 1 Wds 1 Remote Node 1 IP 10.10.13.2 Router 2 Radio 0 Radio 1 Wds 0 Remote Node 2 IP 10.10.12.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Table 5 captures the manual configurations needed to set up our example mesh network: Node MSR2000_1 MSR2000_2 MSR2000_3 Table 5 Manual WDS Configuration Interface Remote Node Radio 1 Wds 0 2 Radio 1 Wds 1 3 Radio 0 Wds 0 1 Radio 1 Wds 0 3 Radio 1 Wds 0 2 Radio 1 Wds 1 1 IP Address/Mask 10.10.11.1/24 10.10.13.1/24 10.10.11.2/24 10.10.12.1/24 10.10.12.2/24 10.10.13.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio)# no auto wds MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio)# wds 0 MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio-wds)# remote node 2 1 MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio-wds)# ip address 10.10.12.2/24 MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio-wds)# quit MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio)# wds 1 MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio-wds)# remote node 1 1 MSR2000_3(config-if-dot11radio-wds)# ip address 10.10.13.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.0〓 Chapter 4 Factory Default Configuration When each MSR series is shipped, it is preloaded with a factory default configuration. Table 6 outlines the factory default value for some of the important parameters. Table 6 Syntax of the Setup Command Setting Factory Default Value Password public Country Code US Node ID 1 Router ID 192.168.10.1 Fast Ethernet 0 192.168.0.
〓MSR Series Quick Start Guide, AOS-v2.
