S-uhf flooding level, Flood register, Arp server mode – Intermec 6710 User Manual

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SECTION 4

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Configuration

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6710 Access Point User’s Guide

S-UHF Flooding Level

Because of its low bandwidth, S-UHF is vulnerable to

excess traffic from busy backbones. The recommended

settings for S-UHF is Inbound/Disabled

and Outbound to

Secondaries/Disabled (for the multicast and unicast

options). These settings prevent excessive traffic from

being forwarded onto the RF medium.

Flood Register

You can use the Inbound option and Outbound to

Secondaries option in combination with the Flood Register

setting for the Ethernet port. You can configure the

network so that unicast or multicast frames are flooded

only to secondary Ethernet LANs that have unicast or

multicast flooding (or both) enabled. Unicast and multicast

flooding options for secondary Ethernet LANs start on page

4-59.

ARP Server Mode

ARP Server Mode can convert multicast ARP requests to

unicast ARP requests for stations in the forwarding

database. ARP Server Mode can significantly improve

wireless network performance in busy IP networks.

Settings are:

Disabled
No Flooding
Delay Flooding
Normal Flooding

When ARP Server Mode is enabled, the IP addresses are

included in the forwarding database entry for the station.

The ARP server learns the IP addresses of wireless stations

by monitoring ARP packets. Additionally, some stations

may have the capability of explicitly registering IP

addresses with the ARP server.

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