Campbell Scientific RF401A-Series Spread Spectrum Radios - Manual (Page 33)

RF401A-Series Spread Spectrum Radio
11.2.3 PakBus Verify Interval
This setting specifies the interval, in units of seconds, which will be reported as
the link verification interval in the PakBus® hello transaction message. It will
indirectly govern the rate at which the device will attempt to start a hello
transaction with a neighbor if no other communication has taken place within
the negotiated PakBus® link verification interval. When Active Interface is
PakBus Router, hello transactions will occur over RF; otherwise, they will be
sent over the serial port selected as the Active Interface.
If PakBus Verify Interval is set to zero, a verify interval of 2.5 times the
PakBus Beacon Interval will be reported by the device.
It is advised that PakBus Verify Interval be set to an interval
several times larger than your expected general communication
interval, for example, data collection interval.
11.2.4 Central Router
Specifies the PakBus® address of another device that the RF401A series will
use as a Central Router. A valid setting is a single address between 1 and
4094. When set, the RF401A series will act as a branch router. Specifying a
central router address can reduce the amount of PakBus® RF traffic by
eliminating the exchange of neighbor lists with routers beyond the central
router. This is especially true when the network contains many transient or
intermittent PakBus® routers. If the RF401A series does not know how to
explicitly route a packet, it will be handed off to the Central Router specified
by this setting.
11.2.5 Neighbors Allowed
This setting specifies an explicit list of nodes the RF401A series will accept as
neighbors when acting in the capacity of a PakBus® RF repeater / router. If
the list is empty (default), any node will be accepted as a neighbor. This
setting will not affect the acceptance of a neighbor if that node’s address is
greater than 3999. The formal syntax for this setting is:
neighbor := { "(" range-begin "," range-end ")" }.
range-begin := pakbus-address. ;
range-end := pakbus-address.
pakbus-address := number. ; 0 < number < 4000
Example: (129,129) (1084, 1084)
In the example above, nodes 129 and 1084 are assigned as neighbors to the
RF401A series.
11.3 Advanced
11.3.1 Serial Number
Stores the serial number of the device.
11.3.2 Operating System Version
Device operating system version
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