GE MDS Master Station Technical Manual page 56

Device Type – The role this device will be performing in the network. If this device is
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operating as a repeater, the MAC device type MUST be 'remote'.
MAC Retries – If a message is not acknowledged after transmission it will be resent. This
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value controls how many times the radio attempts to resend the message before discarding
it.
Time to Live – When a message arrives from the payload interface(s) it is time-stamped
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and queued for radio transmission. If the radio cannot transmit the message before the
Time-to-Live (TTL) value (in seconds), the message is discarded. This helps prevent stale
or old data from being sent over the air.
SAF Network (Access Point only) – If this device is in use in a Store-And-Forward
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network, enable this option.
Repeater Network (Access Point only) – If this device is in use in a repeater network,
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enable this option.
Payload 1/2 Inter Packet Gap – The inter-packet gap is a timing setting in ms used to
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delimit a packet on the serial interface. Too short of a time can cause serial streams to be
combined into one large packet instead of two smaller ones. Too long of a time can slow
down the communications channel.
Transparent Rx Timeout – This setting is similar to the timing parameters for
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Inter-Packet Gap
an Ethernet packet based on a transparent data stream received over the radio channel.
Peer to Peer
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, but it applies to data received over-the-air. It tells the radio how to build
MDS™ Master Station
Payload 1/2
MDS 05-6399A01, Rev. E